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Ep. 61: New Year's Revolutions

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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A Year in the Life of Iran and the Alternative of Nuclear Power

CNN's John Sutter says the past year has shown dictatorships that looked like they were weathering the storm pretty well are, in fact, quite fragile. A year into Russia's war on Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has had to send conscripts, mercenaries to the front because his army was routed. Chinese protesters have taken enormous risks and shown great bravery to voice their disgust at the leadership of Xi Jinping. And then, of course, there is also Iran. If there's one thing that Iranians will remember from 2022, it's this. Massive popular protests erupted following the death of Mahsa Min,. a 22-year-old Kurdish woman while being detained by the regime's morality police

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