
Suzanne Maloney on the Protests in Iran
The Lawfare Podcast
Is Khamenei Just Paranoid?
Is it fair to say that at least some large group of the protesters, in fact, also link the domestic repression with a set of international behaviors or is Khamenei just paranoid in that regard? I think they're inherently interlinked. We don't hear the kind of slogans that we heard in prior rounds of protests that specifically referenced Syria and Lebanon that were deeply nationalistic. And so, you know, at this point, I think it is very much internally focused. The sense is that Iranians just want normalcy. They want access to the world around them.
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