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#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is the State in Power?
There's actually a term for it. It's called Basigi, those have been recruited by the state. This is the youth kind of vigilante, if you like, that you can see them also in these demonstrations. Sometimes thugs, they're called the civil cloth. The people that come to these demonstrations that start beating up these young people and they are not in security police uniforms,. But they are just regular clothes. These people still support and they still benefit because they get jobs, they get privileges, and these are very important for a state that basically monopolizes most of the resources. Even during this action, let alone before this action, the oil revenue of Iran, which is the major
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