Aiden

It's been a very badly run country, right?

Economically, it's done very poorly, very repressive.

People aren't generally happy.

The average person's not very happy.

And they've had a lot of protests and riots and many revolutions escalating over the past few years.

The most recent one in 2022 and 2023 was because a woman got executed in police custody for not wearing the face covering correctly.

And there was a massive nationwide protest.

It got pretty big.

People thought it was going to be a thing.

But this is as my friend told me, every single time they try, the reality of the ground is that the Ayatollahs and the government has the weapons.

They have the guns and they win.

And they wait it out and they use the power they have and the protest ends.

This time around, it is a little bit different, primarily because this one kicked off because the economy has gotten to a point

of true disaster, which is recently, I guess in the past year, you could say, the Iranian real has gone from like...

I don't know, 50,000 to a dollar to like 1.5 million.

Like the value of the currency has turned to ash.

And so this kicked off, this protest around kicked off not from any like massive political movement.

It started because all of the people in the center of the city, like the markets just started shuttering their shops and getting angry because they could not profitably, they couldn't sell anything.

The prices were changing minute to minute.

Like they could not,