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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: The Socialist Shift | Stakelbeck Tonight | July 15, 2026
- Welcome to stakelbeck
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- Tonight i'm erick stakelbeck and if you think recent
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- Electoral victories
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- By self avowed socialist and president trump's warnings
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- About the rise of communism in america are just overblown.
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- No reason for concern.
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- Consider remarks made the other day by rashida tlaib.
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- She's a democrat congresswoman from michigan, a palestinian
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- And a member of the democratic socialists of america,
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- A group that's making major inroads
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- In the democrat party, especially among young people.
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- Here's a small taste of what they stand for.
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- Courtesy of rashida tlaib.
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- No class at all,
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- But plenty of anti-american and anti-israel radicalism.
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- And her ranks are growing
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- From new york to d.c., seattle and beyond.
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- And house speaker mike johnson is sounding the alarm.
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- Watch. this is not a game.
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- Everybody needs to understand these crazy little mini
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- Mom, deniz, who are popping up all around the country.
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- They were. they were a danger to you and your family.
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- This is not a game if they promise you free stuff.
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- There is far more beneath those promises that even
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- Some of these people do not understand them.
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- Folks, again, this truly is a dangerous moment
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- For our country, both at home and abroad.
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- We need to pray and yes, we need to vote.
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- Remember, the november midterm elections are right
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- Around the corner.
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- Coming up,
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- We get a firsthand account
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- Of the fight for freedom in iran and possible changes
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- At an institution that the socialist and globalist
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- All seem to love united nations.
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- And it all starts now.
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- As the battle
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- Between the united states and iran enters
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- A pivotal moment, questions remain about the futures
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- Of iran's regime, the region and the iranian people.
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- Joining us now to break it down as jonathan harounoff,
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- Israel's former spokesman to the u.n.
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- And award winning journalist and author of the best selling
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- Book unveiled inside iran's woman life freedom revolt.
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- Jonathan, welcome. great to have you with us.
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- Hey, things heating back up.
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- President trump tried and tried for about three months
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- To come to some sort of credible deal with iran's regime.
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- The regime surprise, surprise, didn't want to play a ball.
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- What is the state of play now, jonathan?
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- And where does israel factor into this right now?
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- It's iran
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- And the us going toe to toe, but israel stands at the ready.
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- Should iran, god forbid,
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- Try to stir things up with the jewish state once again?
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- It's very good to be with you, erick.
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- And you're absolutely right.
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- I think all credit goes to president trump
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- For attempting and trying to use diplomacy and negotiation
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- To try and reach
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- Some kind of diplomatic outcome with the islamic republic.
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- But what we've seen time and time again
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- Is that the islamic republic
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- Doesn't want to negotiate in good faith.
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- And any time they have gone to the negotiating table,
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- Whether it was under obama or in the future,
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- They always had a more nefarious ulterior motive.
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- And unfortunately,
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- You know,
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- The war is never a pleasant thing,
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- But sometimes it's very necessary.
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- And what we're seeing is the united states
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- Saying enough is enough.
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- The islamic republic cannot with impunity fire
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- And attack its neighbors and sort of choke
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- The international waterways in australia
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- And attack us military bases across the middle east.
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- And the united states is rightly taking steps.
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- As for israel.
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- Israel remains offensively and defensively very ready
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- For any kind of development.
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- Should the islamic republic be foolish enough to attack,
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- And we stand shoulder to shoulder
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- With our allies in the united states in continuing to
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- Address the threat of the islamic republic
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- And to hopefully one day see a free iran.
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- Yeah. amen.
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- Number one and number two,
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- They may just be jonathan that foolish as to attack,
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- Judging by the regime's track record,
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- Especially in recent months.
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- But as you said, israel stands at the ready.
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- That would be a very bad day for the mad mullahs.
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- Needless to say, bad day for him over the past week or so.
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- To jonathan look.
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- Ayatollah khomeini,
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- Funeral procession, threats against president trump,
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- Against prime minister netanyahu.
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- What stood out to you about the ayatollah,
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- The not so dearly departed ayatollahs funeral?
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- But what stood out to me were a number of things
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- The timing, how this had taken place months and months
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- After the second supreme leader was assassinated.
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- That's one thing.
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- The second thing is the kind of vitriol that you saw
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- Come out of regime mouthpieces, how they had targets on
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- Faces of us officials, including president trump
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- And including, unfortunately, lindsey graham as well.
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- Not that i'm drawing a connection
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- Between what happened,
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- But i think it's safe to say that the islamic republic
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- Doesn't want peace with the united states.
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- Real quick, break down that iranian ideology a bit more.
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- What drives them, this apocalyptic ideology, really,
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- And why that would provoke them to even attack their arab
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- And muslim neighbors.
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- They've been bombarding the uae, bahrain, etc.
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- With missiles and drones as well, in the case of the uae.
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- They've targeted
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- The uae even more than israel over the past few months.
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- That's absolutely right.
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- And there's a reason behind all this.
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- There's a reason why the people of iran,
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- The ordinary,
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- The 93
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- Million people of iran, the vast majority of whom
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- Are very different to the regime.
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- There's a reason why they're so impoverished,
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- Why inflation is sky high, unemployment is so high.
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- The reason for that is that the islamic republic,
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- The clerical leadership,
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- The military infrastructure
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- Haven't investing all of their resources into building this
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- Very dangerous
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- And destructive foreign policy and nuclear weapons program.
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- And they've been preparing for an eventual war
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- With the united states, with israel.
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- They want to annihilate israel.
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- And and they haven't really strayed
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- From that foundational promise and goal since 1979.
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- So that's very much core to their identity
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- And their mission.
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- It's non-negotiable.
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- And the irgc, it stands for the islamic revolutionary
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- Guard corps.
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- They're guarding the revolution at all costs.
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- And in terms of their arab and muslim neighbors,
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- It seems like for the regime, this is kind of
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- Going all in here.
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- I guess they're
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- They're going to try
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- To go out in a blaze of glory if they're going out.
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- Is that how you see it?
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- Yes. the way i see it is that the islamic republic recognizes
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- That they can't take on militarily
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- Some of their adversaries in the united states, in israel
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- And perhaps some of the gulf allies.
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- So what they're doing is
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- They're trying to wage a war of attrition and outsider
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- These countries and try
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- And destroy their economies and tourism and all of that.
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- So they know that they can't defeat them
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- In conventional warfare, but they can inflict damage.
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- And i think that's the strategy they've been going for.
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- Yeah.
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- Jonathan, great breakdown 47 years.
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- Enough is enough.
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- More with jonathan harounoff after the break.
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- Also, what's the latest at the un?
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- Jonathan knows that institution very very well.
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- Maybe some interesting changes coming there.
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- Believe it or not we'll break it down next.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- We're talking to jonathan harounoff israel's
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- Former international spokesman at the un
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- And the author of a great book called unveiled inside
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- Iran's woman life freedom revolt.
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- Jonathan, people may say, when was this revolt? what?
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- Well, it was 20, 22, not too long ago.
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- It was really spurred
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- On by the death of
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- That courageous young iranian woman, masa amini,
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- Who refused to don the islamic headscarf and was killed
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- As a result by the regime's so-called morality police.
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- Talk about the book a bit, jonathan,
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- And how that 2022 uprising really helped to trigger
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- The current state of unrest among the iranian people,
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- Who are beyond fed up, clearly with a tyrannical regime.
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- Absolutely.
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- That was
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- Quite a transformational period in iran's recent history.
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- In many ways, it was a point of no return
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- To the iranian people.
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- Of course, there were many protests
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- Before a whole series since 1979.
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- If you look back to the 2009 green revolution,
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- 2017 1819, but 2022 really marked a point
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- Of no return, where millions of people across
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- Iran, across all 31 of iran's provinces,
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- Said enough is enough, and they no longer demanded
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- Reforms within the system
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- Of the islamic republic and demanded whole scale change.
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- And the reason why
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- I personally wrote this not not just because my family
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- Comes from iran
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- And i'm intimately involved and care about the region.
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- But i've also found that people have an interest in iran,
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- But they don't know an awful lot about the people of iran.
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- So the intention here was to humanize
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- The stories of the brave, courageous women and men inside
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- Iran who have been fighting for so long
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- Against the islamic republic, and to draw a very clear
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- Distinction between the 47 year old islamic republic
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- And the 93 million people of iran who come from thousand
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- Multi
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- Like thousands of years
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- Of history and civilization that long precedes
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- The islamic republic. that's right.
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- Ancient persia of course.
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- Jonathan, it's a great book and it couldn't be more timely.
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- Folks, you can pick it up right now,
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- Amazon.com wherever books are sold.
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- But so timely with
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- What's unfolding right now in the streets of iran,
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- Quite literally, the regime killed probably over
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