Unveiled threats: Iran's patient protesters
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
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Iran’s protests may have gone quiet for the moment, but that does not mean they’ve been defeated. Beneath a calmer surface, Iranians are seething and biding their time. India’s pharma sector is huge, but has long been dogged by concerns about quality control. And we reveal last year’s most newsworthy subject.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | From London today, I'm John Fassman. |
| 0:10.4 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events, shaping your world. |
| 0:18.4 | India's pharmaceutical sector produces one-fifth of the world's generic drug supply, thanks |
| 0:23.6 | to rock bottom prices. |
| 0:25.6 | And concerns about quality control and corner cutting continue to beset the industry. |
| 0:32.4 | And in 2020 and 2021, one single story dominated the world's news. |
| 0:38.6 | Here's a hint. |
| 0:39.9 | It concerned it contagious virus with a spike protein. |
| 0:43.2 | What was the dominant story in 2022? |
| 0:46.2 | Keep listening and you'll find out. |
| 0:55.8 | By first. |
| 1:03.7 | This week a court in Iran sends Faisah Hashmi, a women's rights activist, to five years |
| 1:09.4 | in prison. |
| 1:12.0 | Outer of the former Iranian president Akbar Hashmi, Rastinjani, she was convicted of propaganda |
| 1:18.1 | against the system. |
| 1:20.0 | A crime dreamt up by the ideologues of Tehran. |
| 1:23.6 | That's just one of a number of high-profile prosecutions. |
| 1:27.2 | From footballers to poets, no one has been immune from a nationwide crackdown on dissent |
| 1:32.4 | in the country. |
| 1:34.9 | Over three months of repression, executions, and mass roundups have cowed protesters |
| 1:40.0 | demanding regime change. |
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