Chapter 1: What are the recent developments in the anti-government protests in Iran?
Turning overseas now, anti-government protests in Iran are spreading throughout the country 10 days after they began. Human rights groups say at least 36 protesters have been killed. President Trump has threatened U.S. intervention if Iran's government continues its crackdown. Elizabeth Palmer has reported many times from Iran. She joins us now from London.
Getting any report out of Iran is incredibly difficult. What do we know about these protests?
What's different this time around, surprisingly, is the fact that the Iranian government hasn't actually, from what I've seen, has not actually limited the internet. Because usually when this kind of stuff happens, there's a lot of, obviously, external involvement. There's different groups. Because Iran is a very diverse country as well, for the record, for those of you who don't know.
So there's external pressure coming from different ethnic groups inside of the Iranian state. You got the Kurds on one hand, you got Turkic people also, and they're applying pressure. Then there's also the younger generation that's understandably frustrated with the repressive state elements in general.
But most consequentially, the thing that impacts people the most, obviously, is the success of the sanctions that have... Understandably ruined the economy, just like it did in Venezuela as well. And then while we are consistently dialing up that pressure and then people and then people get mad about that because they're starving and they're angry and they're upset.
uh we then turn around and go oh dude these guys just don't know how to manage their economy there's just not really much you can do if you're outside of the american uh if you're you know a foreign adversary no matter how big you are in the absence of having nukes nuclear arms
you're never going to be able to position yourself around the globe, especially when your closest allies that are outside of the American security apparatus are too busy doing their own shit, like Russia in particular, also fighting in Ukraine and invading Ukraine. So that's the situation in front of Iran. And I don't know where these protests go as well. I don't know where this goes.
It seems to be getting larger and larger every single day.
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Chapter 2: How has the Iranian government's response to protests changed over time?
Like I said, a big part of that is because of the frustrations that the youth feel or the frustrations that everyone feels really towards not only just like state repression, but also the economy, first and foremost, the economy.
Well, we're able to talk to people in...
Why did Islamic Republic alienate America for no reason? Iran's rulers paying the consequences for the choices that they made. You're joking, right? That's a meme, right? I hope you're memeing because there ain't no way you're being sincere.
I think a lot of people don't understand that the Iranian government has actively worked alongside the United States of America and its operations in the Middle East. And if it were, if anything, they've been too subservient to the needs and interests of the United States of America in general. It's not even a question. Yeah.
Iran cooperated with American security doing intelligence sharing in the region for the longest time after the problem we created in the goddamn region known as the Islamic State. And we thanked Iran by assassinating one of the fucking major heads of the military. Also, it's it is deeply ironic.
when the united states is a protester that's killed in broad daylight in the wealthiest nation on the planet in the bastion of liberal democracy our president obviously celebrates that moment when iran which has been crippled and destroyed by sanctions which has like
a a uh hermetically sealed uh form of governance as a consequence of of western intervention uh since its successful revolution against the previous western intervention that was so unfavorable that like it unified the islamists alongside with um alongside the communists and the socialists it's uh it's it's a just cause for military intervention if iran shot
Which is such a funny thing to say, because the last time America intervened in Iran militarily, alongside Israel, which, by the way, I consider Israeli intervention in Iran also an American intervention. as do they, uh, they killed a bunch of children.
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Chapter 3: What role do ethnic groups play in Iran's current political landscape?
So what are you going to do? You're like, uh, no, excuse me, Iran. Only we get to kill your population. Is that the argument here? It's like, you better not kill your protesters or else we'll come over there and bomb the out of your Capitol. Like, like, what are you going to do? So, yeah, it's a, it's a horrible situation in general. And, uh, Obviously, it shows the incredible inconsistency.
And liberal media, of course, plays a formative role in upholding this inconsistent attitude.
Iran, and of course we have smartphone videos of the protests that act as little windows into what's going on. Independent journalists, especially foreign ones, are being kept well away.
We know the protests have erupted across Iran, mostly in the south and the west, and while they aren't huge compared to the massive uprisings we saw back in 2022 and 23, they are continuing and they do appear to be growing. How vulnerable is the regime? That's the big question. It's certainly weaker than I can remember it ever having been.
There's no question Iranians are utterly disillusioned and fed up. The economy is in a shambles thanks to sanctions, but also to mismanagement. And the regime, of course, was humiliated by Israel and America.
For the record, this is why I consistently say Americans are not ready for a serious revolt, because the American economy has not come to this, has not gotten to this point. If the American economy got to this point, all of those Christian nationalist formations, like the people that you see, they would make ISIS look like pacifists.
Like, if the American economy resembled the conditions of Iraq or resembled the conditions of Iran, all of those, like, far-right groups would unironically make ISIS look like babies. Like, you want to talk about, like, throwing gay people off routes and shit?
Like, I'm telling you, the only thing that keeps Americans at bay and stops Americans from murdering one another, slaughtering one another, is the fact that they have not experienced hunger.
attacks last June.
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Chapter 4: How have international sanctions impacted Iran's economy?
Online, you do see calls for America to strike again following President Trump's warning that the U.S.
might intervene, although I should say there's no military movement to suggest... It is pretty funny, though, that, yeah, when they're burning things, jumping on cars and blocking the road, when this happens in the United States... Asmongold says the American government should come in and just murder every single person.
Put all the people that were doing the shit in front of the detention centers, put them in mandatory prison labor camps, authorize the police officers to respond with violence to them. Bring in the military if you need to. Look and find out who's funding this. Take those people. Charge them with incitement for terrorism. Put them in Guantanamo Bay.
Like, I'm talking about scorched earth Old Testament.
Get them the fuck out. When it's happening in Iran, Asmogold turns around and says, oh, these people deserve freedom and liberation. Why aren't they getting the freedom and liberation? Jesus. So they're actually arresting protesters now? Very interesting perspective from, you know, the average American hog.
The average American hog who spent the entire day justifying an ICE agent killing a random civilian, a random citizen.
And then he shoots her. Gotcha, bitch. And then he shoots her a couple more times to finish her off.
Absolutely rip fucking bozo. Just saying. At least for me, like, I recognize the needs that these people have. And I understand why they're frustrated. And I understand why they're protesting. And I would never fucking advocate for the Iranian government to slaughter them. Inconsistency, once again. This is a testament to how our nation and Israel broke Iran.
Iran offers citizens $7 monthly payments as protests spiral over economic crisis report. Typically, you are not supposed to directly mention the fact that sanctions have directly impoverished the Iranian people, but this man has no functioning brain, so he doesn't see the need to lie about it. Reza Pahlavi's first call ever for protests announced yesterday. It got like 80 million.
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Chapter 5: What factors contribute to the disillusionment of the Iranian youth?
He is a monarch. That's number one, which constantly gets lost in this conversation. Like a lot of Americans don't understand. They just hear like, oh, foreign name. Seems like he was, I don't know, the leader of Iran or something. It's like, no, his dad was. And secondly. He is a monarch.
And not only that, but also the only place where actually Reza Pahlavi could win a democratically elected seat is unironically LA council. Like literally that is the only place on the planet. If he ever entertained a democracy, that would be the one place he would definitely win in West LA. The one place on the planet where he could potentially win is West is West LA or Beverly Hills.
Not even Miami, unless he tricked people into thinking he was like Cuban or something. Yeah, he would crush in Westwood or Beverly Hills or Westwood. Literally a terrible take. It doesn't even make sense at all.
Chapter 6: Why is there a resurgence of interest in Reza Pahlavi among some Iranians?
Why do you have to use unrelated hypotheticals in every take? Get rid of get of get off Reza Pahlavi's dick. Wait, what? What do you mean? What? I can't make jokes about a fallen monarch that was already a Western installed puppet. Like, God damn, dude. I thought we were against kings in this place. Damn, dude. Liberals are just like, nah, actually, we do love monarchs. Fuck it.
Hassani, we're severely underestimating people's stupidity. Reza is getting serious motion. Instead of yapping, tell us how to counter. Monarch is propaganda backed by millions of dollars. I don't think that there is a serious motion there. I'm being serious. Terrible take. Sorry, man. I agree with everything you say, but he's very popular amongst the Iranian people.
Yeah, Iranian people in America. A lot of right-wing coverage, Fox, et cetera, popping up. Paul Levy feels designed to sell Trump a mirage of imminent collapse in Iran, so we might as well finish the job militarily and take credit. This scenario isn't closed, and another war would likely be costlier than June. You say it's literally a joke, yet you constantly joke about racism. It makes no sense.
Your brainless hypotheticals are just so clueless. That's what I have to say to you. If you think I can't crack jokes at the expense of a person who wants the American government and the Israeli government to install him in the seat of power when his dad was so...
unimaginably ruthless that there was a successful revolution against them by the iranian people mind you um i don't know what else to tell you like you know you can try to preserve the uh the sanctity of your of your favorite fail son but um yeah no it's delusional oh no he's getting motion inside too unfortunately people are desperate and think that an uncharismatic bottle of ketchup is their only hope i mean good luck i don't know what to say other than other than the fact that you know
Good luck. Good luck, guys. He will be the Bolsonaro of Iran. He is a lion. He is a lion. He's Mr. Lion.
He is my lion. Well, Iran is a country of factions and power.
He co-ops the announcements. There's 100% massage slash U.S. collab with a ketchup bottle, possibly to orchestrate things to make it look like he's more influential than he is. I don't think he's gaining that much. Why do you spin out in silence like that? I just don't think that there is like legitimate there. There is enough real support in the country for a monarch.
No matter how much the newest people are shouting his name in the streets. Please stop spreading your political views. Sob emoji. Where are these people coming from? I suspect not from Iran, right? Like this has got it. Is there like a big video that Asmongold did or made or something? It was talking about like people in the streets of Tehran are screaming for the Shah to come back.
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