Ep. 61: New Year's Revolutions
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
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The Freedom Movement in Iran Is Leaderless
The regime in Iran is very much like a Cuba or Venezuela, it comes in with a revolution in the name of the poor. The irony is that the people who are most furious at the regime are those in whose name the revolution was waged. In that sense, it's late Soviet Union kind of problem that the regime has and that it doesn't have any base of support other than the regime itself.
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