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Hello and welcome back to The Spectator podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast and on this week's episode we'll be looking at the recent turbulence in Iran.

We'll also be asking whether Wilfred Earn was a paedophile and if it matters, and we'll be

wondering whether subtitles now rule the entertainment world. In this week's cover piece, Douglas Murray

suggests that Iranian politics have long been hard to read. But while Iran may be currently

witnessing another uprising, the world would prefer to ignore it,

says Douglas. He joins me now, along with Nazanin Ansari, the managing editor of Kaihan, London,

a Persian language newspaper. So, Douglas, do you think we're witnessing another revolution in

Iran? Well, what I say is that what everyone's looking out for is, you know, is this a reversal of

the 1979 moment, or is it going to be a

terrible replay of the crackdown that we saw in 2009, or something very new entirely? And I say

in the piece that it's too early to tell on some of this at the moment. There are some very

worrying signs, but these are very important and extraordinary events that are going on. And I don't think they've had enough attention from the international media,

which is becoming increasingly parochial.

You can't help noticing.

Nazne, what's actually behind this particular uprising?

There are many grievances that all have coalesced into one big shout for change. Certainly, there is the broken banking system

and also the broken pension system. This has affected many ordinary account holders and pensioners.

There is also the war with Syria. The president, Rohani, only published his budget

recently. And in this instance, all the allocations, financial allocations for religious

institutions were public this time. And so the voters saw that while they are suffering religious foundations

who are cash generating anyway from people's arms, they are receiving chunks of the government

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