Abbas Amanat

And like similar regimes in the Middle East, at least,

These are military industrial complexes.

You can find them in Egypt, of course, which is very powerful, very traditionally has been in power and still is in power.

You find them in Pakistan, which is extremely powerful, and they can change the prime ministers as they did in the case of the last one.

You can find them probably in Myanmar, is the same phenomenon.

And I can, if you look around, you can find quite a number of them.

And the Revolutionary Guards is equivalent of that.

This is a powerful establishment force, which militarily is powerful, industrially is powerful, and...

Since the start of the revolution, they have been given projects.

So you want to build dams, which they did a major disaster, environmental disaster.

They built 100 and something dams all across the country.

This is the Revolutionary Guard who does it.

So they have all kinds of tentacles all around the country controlling various things.

Well, that is the point.

I think, and revolutionary guys may be an extreme, but many of the people who depend on this state for their support, now the younger generation are telling their parents, you were wrong.

You don't provide for us, this society, this state does not provide what we want.

So there is a dissent within the family, it seems to me.

I hope it's not a wishful thinking.

You know, there is a kind of a joke going around.

You see this determined guys, the clergy bearded and traditional clerical appearance.