Episode 35

Making Sense of Iranian Unrest

Abdolrasool Divsallar (Farzam, if you will) joins us again, after well over a year, to discuss the growing unrest in Iran. Farzam is a visiting profesor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute. 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Divsallar

Timestamps

0:00-9:30 – Why these Iranian protests are different

9:30-16:00 – What’s up with the Supreme Leader?

16:00-20:46 – Regional response

31:28-48:30 – the Iran Nuclear Deal/relations with Russia

48:30-end – Turkey

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