Abbas Amanat

Clear signs of fascism.

Clear signs of...

the state control and pay any price to stay in power.

Well, yes, it was actually quite remarkable to see that from the first or the second day of the protest, you see out in the streets this riot police, okay?

Which comes out in large numbers.

Mm-hmm.

fully geared up.

Their appearance are rather terrifying, like any other riot police, probably more than any other riot police.

They are violent.

They stand in the streets when the students are demonstrating, even in smaller number.

Because before I go to that, I should point this out to you as well, that these demonstrations are not

Large ones in one place.

You don't see 100,000 people in one place.

But you see in every neighborhood, couple of thousand of kids are demonstrating.

All over Iran.

All over Iran.

Now all over the world in different parts.

Yes, yes, yes.

Actually, during the demonstrations three weeks ago, as I said, they had people in...

Sydney, Australia, New Zealand, Tokyo, all over the world.