What Next - Can Iran's Protest Movement Survive?
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian rapper known for criticizing the regime with his music, has been arrested by the Iranian government. His friends and family now worry he could face the death penalty.
Guest: Nahayat Tizhoosh, Producer at the CBC.
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| 0:00.0 | When Fiona started Fee's fancy flowers, she used a fax machine to get in touch with her suppliers, |
| 0:06.2 | her investors and her customers too. But as her business went from 100 customers to 10,000, |
| 0:13.8 | she realized it was time to finally embrace modern technology. |
| 0:19.3 | fax machines, they kind of like your business current account, just because they were good once |
| 0:24.3 | doesn't mean you have to stick with them forever. Maybe it's time to switch with the current |
| 0:28.6 | account switch service. |
| 0:36.8 | This week, if you were looking at headlines, trying to figure out what exactly is happening |
| 0:42.0 | in Iran. You would keep coming across one story in particular, again and again, |
| 0:48.0 | the story that the so-called morality police were being abolished, maybe. |
| 0:54.1 | What do we know about the morality police? Have they been disbanded? |
| 1:01.2 | I started getting push notifications about this story at 10 a.m. on Sunday. |
| 1:06.0 | And reporters were trying to clean up the mess they left behind for days. |
| 1:10.3 | Now US officials believe the regime may be signaling they will shut down the morality police |
| 1:14.8 | as a way to preempt a planned three-day strike as the economy crumbles. |
| 1:19.6 | How quickly were you frustrated by the coverage of this story? |
| 1:22.8 | Was it like right away? |
| 1:24.0 | I try not to get into my personal opinions, but I will say I raised the flag quite quickly |
| 1:29.1 | internally. And so we actually did not lead with that headline. |
| 1:35.4 | The Hyatt Tizouche is an Iranian journalist at the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Company. |
| 1:42.2 | She was not supposed to be working when this story broke, but she waited anyway to warn her bosses |
| 1:48.4 | that the morality police probably were not going anywhere anytime soon. |
| 1:53.4 | Now Hyatt has been keeping her eyes on the protest movement in Iran since it ramped up this |
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