Do Most Iranians Oppose the Regime?

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00:00Now, I know from many of the interviews you've done and articles about you that your family

00:04suffered quite a lot at the hands of the current Iranian regime, and your mother was even in

00:09prison for a while. And I know that much of your knowledge of the country comes from the stories

00:14they tell you, particularly your mother. Now, what chance is there that your view of the country

00:19and your angle on it is shaped by that rhetoric, and that perhaps because of that, there's not a

00:25lot of room to see it in any other way. I mean, I think, you know, at the end of the day,

00:31this is a story that has affected millions and millions and millions of Iranians. This is not

00:36an isolated incident. You know, this is a situation that any Iranian that you meet nowadays, you're

00:43going to find that they have either immediate or extended family that have either been executed

00:48or tortured by the Islamic regime. And so I think this idea that, you know, this is sort of an

00:54isolated experience, or, you know, some several traumatized Iranians are just allowing this to

01:00sort of shape their perspective. It's not really gaining a sense of the bigger picture, which is

01:05that Iran in itself is sort of an anomaly where you have masses, you know, the majority of the

01:13population that are against the regime, precisely because they've all had this personal experience.

01:18And so, yeah, in one way, you could say, well, maybe you're just a person whose family have had such a,

01:22you know, such an experience. And that's why you see it this way. Sure. But you're also going to have

01:26to apply that to about 80% of Iranians. And that's why that does actually form the general perspective

01:32of the Iranian people.