Abbas Amanat

They have this.

But then you look at the smaller cities, they still have the same thing.

So all over the country, one thing that they had managed to produce extensively, irrespective of the fact that whether they are effective or not, but you see them everywhere.

So this just shows that how afraid this regime is.

Yes, very much so.

And it's probably part and parcel of this regime from day one.

The number of prisons that they have, according to perhaps an exaggerated version, they said that about 12,000 or so arrested that are in jails today since past six weeks.

They were 230 or 40 people were killed, including children under 18.

They beat up women in the street, which is extremely actually disturbing when you see these scenes.

So there's a lot of this is on video too, right?

Everything is on video.

Everybody has a camera.

And everybody sends to major news outlets outside Iran.

And they immediately showed every night, if you look at BBC Persia or Iran International, I think there's six of them actually.

All over in England, they are in Deutsche Welle in Germany, which has a particular interest in the Iranian.

BBC World Service and so forth in London.

And Voice of America person here in this country.

There is another one, Radio Fado, which is also funded by the American government, also fully covers all of these events.

So there is no way that these people can, that the Iraq can miss what's going on in the streets of these demonstrations.

And the scenes of beating up women, which in Iranian culture, as I presume in most cultures in the world, there is a certain sanctity that you don't attack women.