S8 Ep904: Joel Kotkin explores how the Iranian diaspora in California largely favors a republic over the current regime. This highly professional and accomplished community draws on their experience in a free society to envision reform. (8/16)
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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Joel Kotkin explores how the Iranian diaspora in California largely favors a republic over the current regime. This highly professional and accomplished community draws on their experience in a free society to envision reform. (8/16)
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| 1:21.8 | Joel is going to take us to a place that gets a vote. That's the diaspora of Iran, sometimes known as the diaspora of Persia. |
| 1:29.9 | And if you go back 2,000 years ago, this is the diaspora of Parthia. Parthia is where the Romans met |
| 1:36.0 | a wall and they never got past it. However, we're in the 21st century. Joel is the presidential |
| 1:41.4 | fellow at the Urban Futures at Chapman University, also a senior presidential fellow at the urban of urban futures at Chapman University, |
| 1:45.9 | also a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute, the University of Texas at Austin. |
| 1:51.2 | Joel, a very good evening to you. The Persians of California get a vote, and I'm not talking about |
| 1:57.1 | the Royals only. And your measure in the New York Post is the vote is little |
| 2:02.6 | lopsided. Who do they favor for the future of Iran, their home country? Good evening to you. |
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