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Hey everyone and welcome to the podcast.

It's me, James, today.

And I'm very lucky to be joined again by Gordaigne, who's a journalist from East Kurdistan, working with Hengor, the Human Rights Organization and lots of other organizations.

And we're going to talk today about what has been happening in Iran for the past few weeks.

So thanks for joining us, Gordon.

Hello. Thank you very much for inviting me again to this show.

And yeah, I'm really glad to be here and I am ready to talk about all the

things that have happening in the past few weeks in Kurdistan and Iran. Yeah. I think for a lot of people,

what is happening in Iran in the last few weeks has not really punched into the mainstream US media for the most part,

right? So I think we should probably begin with a very basic overview of what has been happening

and a little bit of why it has been happening and also where, because I think that's worth

mentioning, right? Yeah, sure. So just a few days before the New Year's Eve on December 28,

there was a spontaneous demonstration and strike in Tehran's Grand Bazaar,

which is basically the center of Iran's trade

and one of the most important backbones of the Islamic regime or

revolution. There were strikes inside the bazaar and so many shopkeepers and business owners

just closed down their businesses and they took to the streets and inside the shopping centers

and they started chanting against the regime and they were basically

protesting the horrible economic situations and the decrease of the Iranian real or the Iranian

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