Pouya

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This American Life · 886: Blackout · 3 May 2026 podcast

What a mess.

Why did they just let it go?

I mean, believe it or not, there is a segment of society who, in my opinion, probably lack a realistic view of what returning to the Stone Age actually entails because maybe they don't really know what it's like to live without electricity in a fifth or sixth or a tenth floor apartment.

But whether it is out of intense rage or just, you know, pure sheer ignorance, many people prefer that we go back to the Stone Age and have our energy infrastructure be completely wiped out as long as the Islamic regime went down with it.

So there's one group completely upset and furious, but then there's the complete opposite, the diehard loyalists ready to sacrifice their lives for the Islamic Republic.

The situation is true.

It's extremely terrifying.

And for me, who's like, you know, slightly in the middle, I completely oppose the Islamic regime.

But my red lines are the destruction of my country's infrastructure and the loss of my loved ones.

And aside from that, I mean, if I'm being real, I'd give my own life to see the Islamic regime gone.

But I do hold these two red lines.

Many of my friends and former colleagues around me had white lines, and I knew it.

But I resisted.

I felt this is an undeniable right that all Iranian people should have.

And I didn't want to use this special privilege.

I wanted to stand alongside everyone else, living with the same hardships and struggles and VP hands and staying on this side, you know, the side of the ordinary people.

You know what it's like?

It's like using a special privilege just to have the right to eat food while the rest of your society, your friends, your family, your siblings can't afford to eat meat.

But because of your privilege, you do.

Does that make sense?

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