Iva Leila

What are you looking for?

I sort of didn't know at the very beginning.

That resonates.

They're in a chamber and they're all debating.

So you've got like the representative from Zanjan or from Tehran or from Esfahan and they're just all debating.

What do they want their new constitution to look like?

And then gradually a picture starts to emerge that you realize that, well, people really were talking about this quite a lot.

It's not that far from where they're sitting.

I could see the movie of what I was reading in my

in my mind's eye, that they're commenting on, oh, wow, wait, what's going on outside?

What's the latest news and what's happening?

And that really radicalizes the direction of the discussion.

It changes the mood of the room.

And it's like you can see it's like this flashpoint where it sort of could have gone in a slightly different direction.

And they make those decisions in the context of this really live, discursive war with the Americans and conflict through the embassy seizure.

I don't think we really know exactly what proportion of the economy they control, but it's a really big chunk that they are involved in.

In theory, sanctions aren't supposed to affect people's ability to access medical supplies, but then they do.

So then it becomes harder to get your medicine.

So if you've got diabetes, maybe you don't get your insulin.

That is then a way in which we can see that sanctions are not nonviolent.