 It's quickly Iran, I know we've been following this story from the beginning, I want to keep following this story, I think this is a crucially important story, it's a story I at least care a lot about and I hope you do too. It is a story of a fight for liberty, a fight for freedom, it is the story of an underdog of basically girls and women trying to fight against a brutal totalitarian regime, a theocracy, not a theocracy in potential, not a theocracy in theory but theocracy in practice, maybe the only theocracy, well the other theocracy is in the world but probably the most dominant, most oppressive theocracy in the world. And it's amazing that the demonstrations by the girls and the women and those men who support them are continuing, they're continuing all over Iran in small towns and large cities but they are continuing. They have not grown yet and they have not to the size of a real revolution. There's no sign sadly that there is any real change brewing within the regime itself. There's no resignations of prominent people although at least one prominent person has disappeared so maybe that's an indication that he was too supportive of the demonstrators and has been disappeared. There's no rebellion within the army, there's no rebellion among the police so the national guard, there's no rebellion within the clergy although there is one Sunni Imam, big shot Sunni Imam who is supporting the demonstrators but he's Sunni and Iran is Shiite so that doesn't really help much and we'll see what happens to him. So the demonstrations continue but no signs that they are going to lead to an actual revolution to actual change. The demonstrators if anything are getting bolder they're calling more and more and more for regime change not just for outlifting this law or that law but actual regime change so I give them huge amount of credit for that and again they're all over Iran. There are some indications that this weekend the Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran has given a green light to the security forces to become a lot more violent and to use a lot more violence against the demonstrators. The demonstrators machine gun down in parts of northern Iran particularly in the Kurdistan in the Kurd area and in the borders with Azerbaijan. These are ethnic groups that are not part of the majority of the Iranian population. There is also some evidence that the regime is now engaged in for fledged attacks on the Kurds. Just as an aside note there was an attack yesterday coordinated attack by both Iran and Turkey and Turkey who both view the Kurds as enemies. Turkey attacked the Kurds because supposedly a terrorist attack in Istanbul last week and the Iranians attacked the Kurds because of I think these demonstrations. Both attacked the Kurds in a coordinated effort. They attacked the Kurds in Iraq in a third country in terms of both artillery and missile attacks. Kurdistan in Iraq is one of the freest and more prosperous areas in the Middle East because of it is free but now it has two very powerful enemies both Iran and Turkey so something to watch for. So no big news in Iran. Demonstrations continue. Crackdowns will probably now intensify. Still no cracks in the regime. Nothing to indicate anything is really going to change. Thank you for listening or watching The Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making an appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. Also if you'd like to see The Iran Book Show grow please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show thank you. I very much appreciate it.