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Iranian Historian Breaks Down Iran Protests - Prof Ali Ansari

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Professor Ali Ansari FRSE (علی مسعود انصاری) is the Professor in Modern History with reference to the Middle East at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he is also the founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies.

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

00:00 Intro
05:00 The Journey to Present-Day Iran
12:52 Iran’s Response to US Restrictions
20:02 Does the West Underestimate Iran’s Significance?
27:50 Why are We Sanctioning Iran?
32:40 Iran’s Access to Nuclear Technology
37:24 Israel’s Role in the Iran Conflict
41:58 Likelihood of Iran Protestors’ Success
48:42 Possible Backlashes from Islam
51:59 Effect of the Internet on Iran’s Younger Generation
57:15 Can We Help without Forcing our Culture onto Others?
1:05:08 What's the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?

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What you have is a Islamic system headed by what is known as a supreme leader who claims to be not only, you know, the Lord's anointed, but actually the Lord's representative on Earth.

0:13.0

And if you're in that sort of situation, it causes problems in terms of governance because nobody's really accountable.

0:21.0

He claims to be accountable to God alone.

0:23.0

The UN said that basically Iran has every, you know, every possible asset for industrial growth or something, you know, expansion, apart from good governance.

0:31.0

And that's the big weakness. I mean, it basically had everything.

0:35.0

It's like, you know, a revolution which, you know, gave it the revolution is an Aladdin's cave and it's proceeded to just basically spend it all.

0:43.0

The memory of the last revolution is now fading. A lot of people were horrified by what the consequences of the first revolution were and weren't in a hurry to have another one.

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Now the new younger generation obviously have no memory of the revolution in Biden's 79 and therefore a less fearful.

0:55.0

The distinctive thing this time round is that the protest is overtly political. It's led by the young and it's led by women.

1:02.0

And certainly the protestors now are not thinking about reforming things. You know, it's all about tweaking aspects with these out of the public. They just want it gone.

1:09.0

I think people are basically coming to the conclusion that internal reform is impossible.

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And that the only thing ahead of them is really for a complete transformation of the state. I mean, in Iran, this is not the first time a woman has been brutalized.

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