Iranian Opposition Movements

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🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Muhammad Sahimi comes on the show to explain the different movements and opposition in Iran. The opposition movement in Iran is kind of a mixed bag. Some like, the Iranian Green Movement, are natural reformers who are trying to facilitate real change in Iran. The other side of the opposition in Iran is groups like the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The Iranian Green Movement, also known as the Persian Awakening or Persian Spring by the western media, refers to a political movement that arose after the 2009 Iranian presidential election, in which protesters demanded the removal of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from office. Muhammad Sahimi explains that groups like the Iranian Green Movement are trying to make real progress. However, as much as these groups are a force for change, no one in the Iranian Green Movement is going to cozy up with the U.S in order to facilitate regime change. Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/brohistory #59 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.2	and I had this really, really interesting interview
1:06.9	with Mohammed Sahimi.
1:08.9	Mohammed Sahimi is a
1:15.0	professor at USC. He's been analyzing Iran's political development in its nuclear program
1:17.0	for the past 25 years. He's a chemical engineer.
1:20.0	He specializes in the Middle East obviously and he wrote this really interesting article
1:26.7	it's been pretty hot in the interwebs it's called Pompeo, and Iran's fake opposition published at LoBlog.
1:36.7	Basically what we're talking about today is the different internal opposition groups in Iran,
1:42.4	and what he considers to be the real opposition to
1:45.4	the hardliners in the Iranian government and the fake opposition.
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