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

Yeah, like the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps operates as essentially a mafia and like they'll go up to businesses that they don't have a stake in or control and be like, be ashamed if something happened, you know, if you don't let us have 20% of your business and if they don't do it, then destroy it in favor of their competition, you know.

Exactly.

This whole thing can sort of be described in crypto terms as like a generational rug pull.

The thing that even they said going in is not what it became.

And the people who understood that started speaking out.

But at that point, it was already too late.

And a lot of the resentment today is just also caused by the corruption and the mismanagement of the country's wealth and resources.

If people could get their water and their food and had economic opportunities, weren't isolated from the whole world, there might not be as much animosity against the government, but they can't even manage the country.

I want to, it's not a priority for them.

It's not like I have a, I have a Khomeini quote in front of me.

I'll read you real quick.

It says, we do not worship Iran.

We worship Allah for patriotism is another name for paganism.

I say let this land Iran burn.

I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.

Respond to that, Amin.

Sure.

Unfortunately, the Shah was a much better man and loved Iran much more than the mullahs.

When it came time for the Shah to, in 1979, decide if he wanted to turn his guns on his people or step down, he chose to step down.

And one of his final words that he said is, you can't hide the truth from history.

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