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#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
Lex Fridman Podcast
Iran Is a Very Modern and Tech Sophisticated Nation
Iran is a very modern and tech savvy nation, not just the young people. It's this 1979, the earlier years, for a decade or two, they tried in a very crude fashion to restrict access to media outside Iran because this is all through dishes. So what the government is doing now, the Islamic Republic, is that they restrict the entire internet. Every day, $50 million, the Iranian government or the Iranian economy is losing because of slowing the internet.
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