Abbas Amanat

And the guy was young, extremely well-educated, well-dressed, and we would have looked at him, we could have found him in any street, in any country in the Western world.

And his major concern, knowing that I'm from outside.

Major concern is, well, tell me which would be a better place for me to go.

What's wrong with the place that you're in right now?

You are in your own country.

You speak your own language.

Oh, this is no good.

I have to have a better future.

This has no future for me.

That's what I'm hoping for.

I share your aspiration, but I'm fearing that I hope it's not a wishful thinking.

Certainly that's what they want.

Certainly that's what they want to create.

But the historian always tells you from where they start to where they finish, there is going to be a huge kind of a change.

And in this particular case,

I would very much hope that it's not going to be a revolution like 1979, Islamic revolution.

And I have my hopes in that.

For one thing, this is a revolution that doesn't have a leader.

And it seems that they're comfortable with that.

at least so far, because we are the sixth week of this movement.