Abbas Amanat

But they do, and this is an Islamic regime that supposedly have to have a certain sense of concern and protection.

Exactly, or fear that these women are not any longer the girls that we thought we are bringing up in this society.

Yes, yeah.

And you see, of course, this government

do have a support base.

I mean, it would be totally wrong to think that the Islamic Republic has not created its own power base.

It does.

But it's probably if there's no way, there are no statistics that we can, or I'm not aware of any statistics that I can give you in numbers, what's the percentage of support for the regime in Iran.

But quite frankly, I don't think it's more than probably 10% of the population.

Yes and no.

I would agree with you in the sense that probably like everywhere else in the world, this is a generational thing.

Every generation thinks differently about the younger generation, no doubt.

And in Iran, it's the same.

But there is another factor here that is involved.

Those that we would consider as traditional no longer seem to have their loyalties to this regime.

That's powerful.

meaning that they consider as a brutal regime that is prepared to kill children in the streets and does a lot of things wrong.

Of course, it tries to take care of its own power base.

There's a very strong sense of, if we start here, there's a very strong sense in this regime

that there are people that is theirs and there are others which are not theirs.