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Amanpour

Iran's Deadly Crackdown on Protests

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A picture is beginning to emerge of the true brutality of the Iranian regime as it cracks down hard on continued protests in Iran. At least 18,000 protestors have been killed in more than two weeks of anti-government demonstrations, according to a US-based human rights group. Nazanin Boniadi is an actress and activist who has long campaigned for human rights in Iran, having been born there in the early days of the Islamic Republic. She joins the show to discuss these protests.  Also on today's show: historian Nina Khrushcheva; author Jacob Soboroff ("Firestorm"); journalist/author Kenneth Rosen ("Polar War")    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

1:10.7

An inflection point in Iran?

1:13.6

Hundreds reported killed as the brutality of the regime's crackdown begins to emerge.

1:19.6

Actress and activist Nazanin Bonyadi tells me what she's hearing from inside the country

1:25.6

and what this means for the future.

1:30.4

Plus, Russia's dissent into tyranny. As Putin launches attack after attack on Ukraine, Nina Khrushcheva tells me how this war is

1:37.3

remaking Russian society.

1:39.7

Then, reflections and lessons learned from the LA wildfires with journalist Jacob

1:45.6

Soberoff who lost his childhood home and a lot of people in Denmark and the Scandinavian

1:52.1

nations more broadly are worried about the next two weeks let alone

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