Abbas Amanat

And I hope it's not going to be actually a revolution, as I pointed out before.

I hope it's going to be more of a sense of trying to come to some compromise and gradually move toward change rather than a collapse of this movement.

and replacement with what?

Yes.

that they say we have it all, you know?

We have our parliament, we have our constitution, we have our elections, which has all been, of course, fake.

But they claim they have all of that.

But the problem for them is that they try to superimpose a certain ideology

like all other ideological autocracies or autarkies, as in this case, that tend to dominate all these institution buildings that they have.

They constantly claim we have this, we have that.

Of course, it's a generational thing.

The upper echelons of this regime are mostly older people, turbaned, they are the clergy, that are afraid of the fact that they may lose their control over their whole system.

This is sophisticated, huge system of government.

And they rely on certain tools of control, which is the Revolutionary Guards and other institutions that are loyal to the state.

And they spend enormous amount of funds that is available to them at least before the sanctions.

But even during the sanctions, they still have enough funds to do so.

And in order to remain in power.

And they are extremely ruthless in that regard.

This is not a nice Islamic fatherly act.

This is a regime that I would see easily in it.