PREVIEW HEADLINE: Author Details Iran's Women-Led Uprising and Explains Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities in Tehran GUEST NAME: Nilo Tabrizy, Author and Journalist 50-WORD SUMMARY: Nilo Tabrizy discusses her new book on the women-led uprising in Iran, spa
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:23.6 | This is John Batchel, conversation with the author and journalist Nilo Tabrizi, who with her colleague Fatima Jammapur, have a new book about |
| 0:31.5 | Iran, Iran in the protest by the young people these last years against the regime. |
| 0:43.1 | For the sun after long nights, the story of Iran's women-led uprising. |
| 0:51.2 | We speak of the disorder, the turmoil, the threats, the violence, the camaraderie. |
| 0:56.4 | But at the same time, we speak of how Iran is today. And here, Nilo gives an understanding of how it is that there are different ethnic groups. They have their own |
| 1:02.1 | language, their own traditions. But in Tehran, they blend, as Nilo explains. There's a story of heroic endeavor here based on the protest after the murder of a young woman for nothing |
| 1:17.7 | because the morality police didn't like the way she was arranged, had her hair arranged. |
| 1:25.0 | The protest continues, and this is the story, however, of Iran today, even under the regime. |
| 1:32.3 | Much more of this tonight. For the sun, after long nights, Nilo Tabrizi will now tell you how it is, |
| 1:40.9 | have different groups all come together in the capital city, Tehran. |
| 1:46.0 | Here's Nilo. |
| 1:48.1 | No, I mean, I think it's such a different experience, I think, for many people that are from ethnic minorities, |
| 1:54.9 | if they come to Tehran, there's a feeling of wanting to blend in. |
| 1:59.0 | Like I asked my father, I said, weren't you scared to immigrate to Canada? And he said, no, because I moved to Tehran when I was 11, and that already felt like immigrating for me. You know, yes, he spoke Farsi in school, but his mother tongue is Azari. That's the language he speaks at home with, spoke at home with his parents and his family. It's a language. |
| 2:17.8 | Sometimes he speaks with my mom when he doesn't want us to hear what they're saying. But, you know, |
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