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#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

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The Model of Government of the Islamic Republic

Iran has the largest brain drain in any country, according to its population. People had very little sense that what Islamic law is all about because secular education has left that into the old religious schools. So there's not a suspicion about Islamic law being the primary law of the land. Not at all. That is Khomeini, took advantage of it and the secular around it.

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