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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The President, the Supreme Leader Versus Mr Ahmadinejad

The president Ahmadinejad is somebody I'm as an American and I'm really familiar with, why is that exactly? But why was the president, the public facing person to the world versus the Supreme Leader? Is that just an accident of a particular human involved or is this by design? No, because the Supreme Leader tries to keep himself out of issues of everyday politics supposedly. So therefore, he is not coming to your United Nations to give a speech during the session. He would come and make outrageous statements. That's why you probably know something about it. All of them make public statements, but he had a proclivity for outrageous statements. The last of the presidents of the Islamic

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