Siavash Ardalan
speaker
120 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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When I opened the balcony door, the blast was so powerful, it threw me back.
In the early days of the war, the missile strikes were few.
Now they come in waves, the bombs and missiles falling in quick succession, one after another.
The main fragment of information that came out was a video clip, a very heart-wrenching and horrific image of people at a mortuary outside Tehran, the capital, where hundreds of bodies were piled upon each other and relatives or families of these people searching for their loved ones.
Now, we hadn't
known the scale of the killings until this video had come out.
And then from the fragments of information we're getting from people via Starlink sending us messages telling us the grim atmosphere right now prevailing in Tehran and other cities after that massive crackdown.
Everyone knows someone who has been killed.
So the situation is one that you would associate with the Syria civil war or with Gaza today in Iran for the authorities to quell one of the biggest protests that took place over the past years.
Well, on the first day of the protests, you had the government saying that they recognized these protests because it was a strike by shopkeepers that come out in the streets protesting against inflation and the way that the currency market works, which is really to their detriment.
And then, as the pattern usually is, it morphed into something different.
bigger than the other people joined the protests and it became against the entire system.
The government's narrative so far has been, we recognize the protests, we'll sit down and talk with those genuine protesters, but very soon separated the protesters from what it called the rioters.
And then when the...
Crackdown turned very violent and the protests turned very massive.
The rioters became armed terrorists trained by the Mossad and by the CIA to sow discord inside the country.
And now with these high numbers of deaths that have emerged ever since this crackdown, what the government is saying that most of these people who have been killed are the security forces and innocent private citizens killed by the protesters, which the government calls terrorists.
Well, in the very beginning days of the protests, President Trump warned that he will intervene if the regime starts killing protesters.
Now, some protesters were trusting that warning, thinking that if they go out to the street, they will be protected by the United States, somehow believing that the U.S.
has an actionable plan to prevent a crackdown.
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