Janatan Sayeh

like believers or who have a Muslim faith.

It's more so about having a very clear and distinct line between church and state.

I think the idea more so is that you could still be a practicing Muslim as long as you don't really enforce that onto others.

I do sincerely believe that's where society is headed.

I do think a lot of religious people increasingly don't want to really impose Islam on others because they don't like what this regime has done to the image of Islam domestically and internationally.

So generationally speaking, again, we're talking about a population that's really majority young.

Gen Z, millennials, these are people that have not even lived under the Iran-Iraq war or the generation of the Shah.

They've only lived under the Islamic Republic and they've only really seen

I guess just chaos and repression.

For them, it's an outright rejection of what their parents have done.

So there's this major generational divide that there was one generation that made a mistake and that's what's really understood is that 1979 revolution was a mistake blank.

There's no understanding that well, 79,

was not inherently a mistake.

It was later on translated to be usurped to X, Y, Z. That is not the understanding.

That was a mistake point blank.

But that doesn't mean we want to literally go exactly to that.

We want to be inspired by that to develop something new.

And that's what I think, you know, when you look at Gen Z, that's why they probably want to see a constitutional monarchy to have elements of both national Iranian pride and, of course, aspects of democracy.

You mentioned the approach towards the United States, how they perceive America.

Yeah.