Alireza Jafarzadeh
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 13 Jun
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You know, in 2017, how did the protest started?
It started with the rise of price of chicken and eggs in Mashhad.
In 2019, it started with the issue of gasoline prices that tripled overnight.
And right now in January of this year, actually, it was late December, early January of this year.
It started by Bazar because of, you know, drastic deterioration of the Iranian currency that even Bazar, who are usually well-to-do, they had problems.
So and then in between, you had small villages that some of which I'd never heard in my life that such villages existed.
And in various provinces of the country, even in my own province where I grew up, I didn't know about them, yet they were involved in large-scale demonstrations, confronting with Revolutionary Guards, bringing their own equipment, fighting the Revolutionary Guards, staging demonstrations.
This wasn't the case two decades ago, 15 years ago.
This is a whole new phenomenon.
Actually, these people used to be the bedrock of support for the Iranian regime.
Not anymore.
So since 2017, we have seen that major shift in terms of the discontent of the population.
It's just a matter of how you can turn that into an actual change.
Sure.
First of all, when it comes to the day-to-day life of the people of Iran, just look at the inflation, look at the exchange rate.
It's just really, really miserable.
People have to run having three, four, five jobs just to be able to make it.
And I'm not talking about the elite.
I mean, of course, in Iran, there is a very small portion
of the population that most of them are actually directly tied to the regime, to the Revolutionary Guards, to the Supreme Leader office, who are well-to-do, who get benefits huge and big time off of these contracts and all of these things.
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