Robert Pape
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2,835 appearances
10 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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So this is not a case where Iran is just 1%.
But what I would say is that let's start with the 25% who are fighters once you start to get into this.
Then you will have, with the leadership, you're going to have thousands of extremists who are part of the
regime, the revolutionary regime, and that's because the Guardian Council over decades has has promoted those kinds of people here for off a political office.
That's because the Revolutionary Guard fought in the Iran-Iraq War where in order to survive in that bloody war, which I know you lived through part of.
Where did you live in Tehran?
Oh, I see.
I see.
I see.
So Pahlavi.
Okay.
Very good.
So the, but you then.
And then you were, I think I heard, born in 74, if I remember right?
78.
78, so you were just about coming of age where you would have been paying attention.
Yeah, so the kind of fervor, once you're in a war of attrition like that,
The kind of fervor, the emotions here, and they're going in different directions.
I'm not saying it all points in one direction, but my God, these are emotional situations here.
Well, this is infecting more than just like five liters at the top or even a few thousand at the top.
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