Abbas Amanat

for trying to indoctrinate Iranian population across the board.

So that's another sign of this kind of a sense of being...

totally left out.

You're not belonging to what's going on in terms of power, empowerment, and disempowerment.

So that's the situation as far as the idea of a freedom is concerned.

And these three somewhat miraculously, and perhaps unintentionally,

the three parts of this message complement each other because perhaps for the first time we see that women are in the forefront of a movement.

I hesitate to say revolution because I'm not particularly happy with revolutions.

The revolutions worldwide and in Iran have always been so miserable in terms of their outcome that we have to be careful not to use the word revolution again.

So that's where it stands now.

And the regime was thinking that, well, these are kids.

They're going to go away.

And then, of course, they're completely conspiratorial in their thinking.

They constantly think that...

These are all the instigations and provocations of foreign powers.

These are the great Satan, the United States.

This is Israel.

Actually, the Supreme Leader says in so many words.

His only response so far that he had...

in the past six weeks with regard to these demonstrations is that these are the children of the SAVAK, SAVAK being the security forces of the Shahstah.