S8 Ep291: WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM: THE STORY OF IRAN'S UPRISING Colleague Nilo Tabrizy. Nilo Tabrizy and co-author Fatima Jamalapur document the uprising sparked by the death of Mahsa Jina Amini in police custody. They trace the regime's brutality back to the 1953 co
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.6 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm John Batchelor. |
| 0:12.8 | It is a great pleasure to welcome Nelu Tabrizzi, |
| 0:16.6 | the author, the co-author of a new book, |
| 0:19.2 | For the Sun after Long Nights. Subtitle tells the story, the co-author of a new book, For the Sun After Long Nights, |
| 0:21.8 | subtitle tells the story, the story of Iran's women-led uprising in these last years. |
| 0:28.3 | The co-author is Fatima Jammapur, who is represented in this book with The Audible I Recommend Highly. |
| 0:36.1 | Both Nilo and Fatima have read alternatively chapters |
| 0:41.0 | from their long-distance correspondence in social media, |
| 0:44.9 | but also from looking at same events and different events over these three years. |
| 0:50.6 | Nilo, congratulations, and good evening, and we begin with a tragedy. |
| 0:56.7 | Messagina Amanu died in September of 2022 at the hands of the police. |
| 1:06.5 | That inspired a rising of young people. |
| 1:09.7 | I believe often they're called Generation Z. |
| 1:13.7 | And at the funeral, which happened soon enough, they were chanting in Persian. |
| 1:21.8 | Jean-Jayan Azadi. |
| 1:25.6 | What does that mean? |
| 1:26.9 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:28.4 | Yes, good evening. That's actually, they were chanting in Kurdish. So Gina's funeral was in |
| 1:33.5 | Kordistan, her home province. She's a Kurdish woman. And Jin Jian Azadi is a Kurdish slogan. |
| 1:40.4 | And we've heard it adapted into Persian as the rallying cry during the 2022 uprising into |
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