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TRIGGERnometry

LIVE Iran Update with Mahyar Tousi

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mahyar Tousi joins Francis and Konstantin to break down the real situation unfolding in Iran right now. What started on 28 December 2025 as protests over a collapsing economy and skyrocketing inflation has rapidly morphed into the largest nationwide unrest since 2022, with demonstrators in dozens of cities calling not just for economic relief but for systemic political change and even the overthrow of the clerical regime. Protests have spread across nearly all provinces, markets and universities, and reports indicate dozens of deaths, thousands of arrests and brutal crackdowns on demonstrators, including gunfire and raids on hospitals, as Iranians voice deep frustration with corruption, repression and daily hardship. Meanwhile, the Iranian government is internally fractured, shifting blame and threatening harsher responses, even as external tensions with the US and Israel add another volatile layer to an already explosive moment. We’ll question the narratives, separate fact from propaganda, and explore what this could mean for Iran’s future and the region tonight with Mahyar, Konstantin and Francis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody, and welcome to this very special live stream.

0:05.3

We are going to be doing something the mainstream media for some inexplicable reason is failing to do, which is talk about events in Iran.

0:12.8

And there's literally no one we could think of who's better to talk about this in Maya Tusi, former guest of Trigonometry, Iranian himself, he's has family in the country.

0:21.7

Maya, without wasting any more time, our time's precious here. What has been going on in Iran

0:26.3

for last 12 days? Yeah, well, thanks for having me, guys. Yeah, 12 days now, in case people haven't

0:32.1

seen because the Western global media are not really reporting any of this. There was initially a protest on the first

0:39.3

day, which was triggered by everything that's been going on economically and everything else.

0:44.6

But this has been boiling up and building up the people have been waiting for an opportunity

0:50.0

for an uprising against the Islamic Republic, something that has been, we've seen waves every

0:55.8

few years in Iran, but the regime had been very good at doing crackdown. And this time,

1:01.1

they've been falling apart the regime, 12 days in a row, 12 battles and the Iranian people

1:06.7

have been having taken control of over 100 cities around the country.

1:11.6

And I think that's partly one of the reasons they've been struggling because usually these

1:15.6

protests or uprisings have been in one or two main cities.

1:18.6

So they've been uprising, obviously, it's been chaos.

1:21.6

But it's still going on.

1:23.6

And President Trump has been warning the regime if you start killing many

1:29.6

people then of course the united states will have to intervene so we'll have to see what's going on

1:35.3

and uh what is happening so far in terms of the brutality of the attempts to crack down we we

1:42.0

know that we've seen some footage of people being taken to hospital.

1:45.6

Is the regime killing people at this point? Where are we?

1:49.6

So the official numbers from the regime themselves over the last, well, the first 11 days,

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