Dr. Ramesh Sepehrrad
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first heard Dec 2025
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I think the core point of a conflict with the regime in Tehran between the people and the regime in power is the issue of freedom.
The issue of freedom has been persistent conflict between this regime and the public.
If you look at during the 1980s, the Iranian regime really thought through mass execution, mass arrests, and trying to really push the dissent and silence the dissent.
But the movement continued.
If you look at the National Council of Resistance of Iran,
Even though they moved to exile, but they continued to expose the regime, they continued to use all of their power inside the country and through their network to raise awareness for freedom and democracy.
Then you fast forward in the 1990s, regime resorted to terrorist activities, even assassinations abroad, and then to where we are since 2000.
So regime has faced several crisis.
One crisis is the crisis of legitimacy because this is not a regime that is able to meet the demand of its citizen, which is really giving the rights and the freedoms to the Iranian people.
Two is they're also facing an economic crisis.
They're facing environmental crisis.
But I think what really would be the Achilles heel for this regime is the political legitimacy.
They lack political legitimacy when people go to the streets time and time again.
And it's not just in the last several years, but it's also happening in the last four decades, is when they say, down with the dictators, down with the ayatollahs, we want freedom.
And the Iranian people are willing to give up their lives and pay the price of their lives to obtain that freedom.
I think the protests, obviously the news doesn't come out and there is definitely an issue of censorship.
But I think the protests that, for example, took place in 2017 and 2018 and 2019, all the way to 2022, if you look at what really sparked the protests,
even though it started with the economic grievances over the price of eggs, over the price of gasoline, or over the killing of the innocent girl, Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish girl, Mahsa Amini, in 2022.
I think what's really in common among all of these protests is the fact that
the issue, the first slogan that starts with economic grievances quickly becomes a political demand and a push for a change of this regime.
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