Protests Break Out In Iran As Trump Considers Regime Change
Novara Live
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The US is threatening regime change in Iran amid anti-government protests. Ayatollah Khamenei has tried to dismiss these as the work of outsiders.
Plus: Donald Trump tells the New York Times that international law won’t restrain him, and Keir Starmer threatens to ban Elon Musk’s X over abuse images.
With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Navarra Life is made possible by Navarra Media supporters. |
| 0:11.6 | To become one, go to navaramedia.com forward slash support. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Navarra Live. I'm Michael Walk. |
| 0:20.3 | For the second half of tonight's show, I'll be joined by Ash Sarkar. We'll be discussing Donald Trump saying that international law will not restrain him, but don't worry, his morality will. I don't know if you find that reassuring. Also, Kirstama has threatened to ban X in the UK over non-consensual |
| 0:40.4 | indecential indecent images being generated by GROC, which is the AI agent on X without people's |
| 0:48.2 | consent, really, really gross. And obviously, Elon must be very gross about it. Before that, |
| 0:53.2 | though, we've got a brilliant interview with Escandah Sadeghi about the current |
| 0:57.5 | anti-government protests in Iran and how they fit into the international context. |
| 1:03.5 | As ever, if you'd like to support our work, you can sign up at Navaramedia.com forward slash |
| 1:08.0 | support. |
| 1:09.6 | Straight into that first story, in iran appear to be |
| 1:13.3 | spreading with protests that began in opposition to rising prices evolving into a movement against |
| 1:19.0 | the governing regime and there is currently a consensus emerging on right wing twitter if you've been |
| 1:23.6 | on there that the mainstream media is refusing to cover these protests. The claim is |
| 1:27.9 | bizarrely that Western media has this enormous bias in favour of the Ayatollah's regime. I'm not so |
| 1:33.3 | what the explanation is supposed to be for that bias. In any case, to put that to bed, here's part of a |
| 1:38.9 | report from Thursday night on Channel 4 News. This evening across Iran, thousands responded to the call to take to the streets against |
| 1:49.2 | the regime. |
| 1:50.8 | This was Tehran tonight. |
| 1:53.4 | Internet access was curtailed, so the pictures we've got are limited for now. |
| 1:59.3 | So these videos are from the last 48 hours, |
| 2:01.9 | and these protests in Iran are different this time. |
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