Protest in Iran continue to grow.

So we call Pantsy Politics resident Middle East expert Carrie Anderson to help us make sense

of it all.

This is Sarah from the left and you're listening to Pantsy Politics.

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

So as you could probably tell from the intro, it's just me here with Carrie Beth got unexpectedly

very sick.

Hopefully she will be back Tuesday when we have a really special episode of Michael Ware.

We're super excited about.

But until then, Carrie is here to help us make sense of the news coming out of Iran, which

has been pretty intense over the last few weeks.

Yes, yeah, absolutely.

It's been a really interesting time.

So Carrie, before we get started, tell our listeners about your areas of expertise.

So I'm a political risk analyst, which I've done for a number of years now.

So I do consulting work mostly on the Middle East, but also on a number of other sort of

global issues.

I also write a bed pieces on a regular basis for Arab news, which is an English language

newspaper based in Saudi Arabia.

She's also our phone and friend Middle East expert.

Literally when I'm like, I have some questions about Saudi Arabia and I just email Carrie

and she explains and it's all amazing.

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