S8 Ep346: SEGMENT 7: IRAN EXECUTIONS AND TRUMP'S PROMISE OF HELP Guest: Jonathan Schanzer (Washington, DC) Schanzer reports on the surge of executions inside Iran as the regime cracks down on dissent. Discussion covers Trump's remarks signaling support for the Iran
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
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SEGMENT 7: IRAN EXECUTIONS AND TRUMP'S PROMISE OF HELP Guest: Jonathan Schanzer (Washington, DC) Schanzer reports on the surge of executions inside Iran as the regime cracks down on dissent. Discussion covers Trump's remarks signaling support for the Iranian people, the brutal nature of the regime's repression, recent execution numbers, and whether American policy shifts could aid those suffering under Tehran's authoritarian rule.
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| 0:59.5 | I'm John Batchel. I welcome my colleague and friend, Jonathan Shanzer, the executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. |
| 1:10.0 | The Wall Street Journal covers it this way. The Iranian businessman was chanting any government's slogans along with hundreds of other protesters on the streets of northern Tehran. |
| 1:11.1 | January 8th, |
| 1:13.2 | when police opened fire. |
| 1:16.9 | A man a few feet away crumpled to the ground, bleeding profusely. |
| 1:21.4 | The 38-year-old entrepreneur said he bent to help the wounded man, |
| 1:27.0 | but fled as more bullets slammed into the retreating crowd at a packed intersection bordered by a park and a shopping mall. |
| 1:30.4 | When they fired, I was full of anger, he said. I felt good and scared. Good to be doing something. |
| 1:36.0 | I'll end there because Wall Street Journal giving us an eyewitness account of a massacre ongoing, to my understanding, the headlines from the London Times, the London papers, the FT this morning is there are massive number of executions either pending or now underway. |
| 1:54.7 | Jonathan, a very good day to you. The massacres on the streets and now the executions demonstrate that what is left of the Islamic Republic is murder incorporated. |
| 2:07.0 | I do not see this a dominant story in Washington right now, nor does it seem to be a dominant story in NATO or the EU or any of the transnational organizations. |
| 2:20.0 | Is that a success of the Islamic regime shutting down the Internet? Is that a turning away because of the horror? Good evening to |
| 2:25.0 | you, Jonathan. Good evening, John. I think it's, well, I think there are a few things at play here |
| 2:30.1 | that we should discuss. First of all, the death toll coming out of Iran right now, |
| 2:35.5 | according to some estimates, exceed 16,500. The official death toll has been put at somewhere |
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