Ameen (Amin) Soleimani

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Bankless · Iran Unchained: How the Islamic Republic Holds Power and Why Protests Keep Returning | Sana Ebrahimi & Ameen Soleimani · 27 Jan 2026 podcast

And so...

She was, you know, in the streets against him.

And then as soon as the Islamic Republic took power, she described pretty horrific things like, you know, her and her friends were at university and then they import like a truck, like truck buses full of what are now called Basiji, the morality police.

And there's like, she remembered telling me there's like a guy with an apron and two butcher knives ready to establish order in her university.

You know, this is like, they're like, what is going on?

Who are these people that have, you know, come to mess with us?

And then the other thing that the Islamic Republic did is went back on all of the progress that had been made towards women's rights.

So under the Shah, women in Iran actually had suffrage, I think even before like women in Switzerland, but a lot, you know, and they still have suffered, but like the hijab laws and the... Cannot become judges.

Yeah, the establishment of women as second class citizens that are mandated to wear a hijab as a sign of their submission to the Islamic Republic and to Islam came right after.

And there was some women's marches because they felt betrayed by the Islamic Republic.

when we say it's lies, it's that almost immediately afterwards.

And, and I actually like barely exist because I got lucky because my dad was like a math exchange student in the U S and he was like writing love letters to my mom, you know, and during the initial Iran, Iraq war.

And he essentially flew there, married her, flew her to the America.

And then like immediately, like the next week, all of her like communist friends got picked up.

And many of them got executed.

And a lot of them were asking that the government was asking them specifically about my mom.

It's a pretty clear Machiavellian move, right?

Right.

It's like in The Prince, you know, the biggest threat to you are the people who just helped you take power.

They'll do this with today, even with like parents of protesters, they'll pick up brothers, sisters.

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