 The other big story I think of the last week has been what's going on in Iran. I don't know if you've been following this, but again, horrible and inspiring at the same time. Last week, or maybe it's more than a week ago now, in Iran, these religious commandments, the religious laws, the women in public have to be covered. They have to cover their hair, they have to cover their face, but their hair has to be covered. I think the face can be revealed, so they don't have to literally wear her job, but their hair has to be covered completely. And it's against the law, and if the women don't cover their hair, they can get arrested. And this young woman, 22 years old, was a Kurdish woman, so from the northwest of Iran, the Kurdish section of Iran, was visiting Tehran and had her hair covering, but supposedly didn't cover enough of the hair according to the religious police in Tehran. She was arrested, and it turns out that she at the police station was beaten and ultimately beaten to death. The Iranians claim that she had some kind of heart attack. This was a healthy young woman, no reason for her to have a heart attack. Maybe she did die of a heart attack, but because she was beaten basically into death, into a body basically failing, or because she didn't cover a few strands of hair. The response started out in the Kurdish area of Iran. The Kurds, of course, are a minority within Iran. It's an oppressed minority pretty much everywhere in the Middle East. There's a massive Kurdish population in, you know, after World War I, when the France and the English divvied up the Middle East, the one ethnic group they didn't allocate a country to, the one big ethnic group, tens of millions of people, they didn't allocate a country to with the Kurds. And there was a very large population of Kurds in Iran, a very, very large population of Kurds in Turkey, and a very large population of Kurds in Syria and in Iraq. And in Iraq, they have some autonomy that they basically won through battle. But in Turkey, they've been trying to carve out their own states, and Turkey has declared them terrorists, the Kurdish independence movement. And of course, you know about the Kurds in Syria because because Trump betrayed them, they were the ones who helped the Americans defeat ISIS. And then Trump basically said to Erdogan, the authoritarian in Turkey, yeah, you can come into Syria and take the Kurds and kill the Kurds. But anyway, the Kurds have a real presence in Iran. And I did a whole show on how he betrayed them, so you can go back and find the show on just horrible. I mean, or you could read what's his name, his advisors, national security advisors, account of how he betrayed the Kurds in his book. I forget the name now again of Bolton, John Bolton, who I saw in Korea. John Bolton has a great account of how Trump on a phone call randomly, in spite of Bolton arguing against it. Trump just stabbed the Kurds in the back. But again, I'm putting that aside. I did a whole show on it when it happened. And anyway, the Kurds in northwest Iran, there were massive demonstrations about this woman who had been killed and had family in that area. And they were obviously super upset and incensed about the fact that she had been murdered. Well, those demonstrations of now, those demonstrations now spread initially to Tehran and now to a lot of the other major cities in Iran and beyond. So they've spread beyond the major cities to smaller cities. These are some of the largest demonstrations, probably larger than the ones in 2019, and maybe even as large or larger than the ones in 2009. In 2019, the demonstrations were primarily economic about economic hardships that were placed on Iran because of the sanctions. Nothing came of that. The 2009 demonstrations were massive. That was around a stolen election that people thought felt that this election was stolen, that a moderate should have won instead of Amin Ajad, who was a much more consistent, religious, hard right, religious. And in 2009, there was a real, I think, opportunity to have overthrown the regime and really to make a dent in the regime's power. And the Obama administration just was pathetic. It could have supported it, could have supported both with Mao. Courage, it could have smuggled weapons and it could have done a lot of things, but they did very little, if anything. They were too busy negotiating a nuclear deal with the Iranians and they didn't pay attention to this. We are pro, at least to some extent, pro-freedom, at least to some extent, freedom in Iran, an anti-the clerical regime. Anyway, that opportunity was lost, maybe lost forever, but there might be an opportunity right now. I mean, the demonstrations right now are unique. They're about freedom. They're about the treatment of women. You're seeing things that you've never seen before in Iran. You're seeing, A, you're seeing people fighting back against the police. You're seeing them beating up the police. You're seeing women burning their hijabs. You're seeing them taking out and putting them in the street and burning them and being cheered on by men for doing that. So these are not the same conservative men of the past. This is a different generation. This is the generation from the last 20 years who've grown up under this theocratic regime, don't believe in this theocracy, and are finally fighting back. You're seeing women. There was a video of a woman in the middle of these demonstrations cutting her hair, which is short, which is against illegal and without hair covering in public and that being cheered on by men. You're seeing the demonstrations spread. You're seeing it being led by women. You know, in 2019, they're estimating that the regime killed 1500 people in order to quell the demonstrations. So far, the regime has not been as violent. So only by official measures, maybe 30, 40, 50 people have been killed. We'll see if this spreads and becomes worse. But you know, we will see this is worth watching. The president of Iran, who is a real conservative, real, real theocratic conservative Iranian Mullah, has come out and said, we're going to crush this so you can expect an escalation of violence in Iran. We'll see whether the demonstrators keep fighting back. We'll see whether this gets outside of the control of the local police. We'll see if they have to bring in the military and troops and the National Guard. This could get ugly and horrific. The good one of the one of the more positive things that have happened is that Iran shut down the internet. So they've blocked all the internet access in Iran. So what happened was the Biden administration, this is to their credit, the Biden administration said, okay, we know we have sanctions against Iran, but anybody who wants to sell equipment into Iran for them to get internet access. So any connection with Iranians for the purpose of giving them access to the internet is we're releasing that from sanctions. So we're eliminating sanctions immediately. And I think this was coordinated with Elon Musk. Immediately, Elon Musk said that he is activating Starlink over Iran. And they're going to try to smuggle in and they're going to try to sell into Iran the dishes, right? Starlink dishes. So they're going to try to get internet access to the Iranians. And again, this was facilitated by the Biden administration releasing because Musk couldn't have done it without the Biden administration saying, we won't prosecute Musk for providing services in Iran because of the sanctions. So let's hope we can get a bunch of satellite equipment into the Iranians, into the demonstrators, let them get dishes. One of the things that's happening is the Iranians now have learned from the Arab Spring, from other demonstrations around the world, they've learned how to use social media, they've learned how to use their phones. That's part of the reason why the regime has shut down the internet. But you don't need the internet. There are a lot of apps now that don't need the internet in order to communicate between apps. I forget how it works, but it's phone to phone to phone to phone. So they create networks of the phones without having to connect to a server to the internet itself. So they're using those technologies to coordinate the demonstrations. If they get Starlink, they can elevate that even better. Anyway, to be watched, let's see if the Biden administration rises to the challenge. Let's see if the West supports them. Again, the Biden administration is in this position where they're negotiating a nuclear treaty with Iran. Maybe they don't want to upset the Mullahs too much. Maybe that's the silent about it. I guess it's a mesh network, Enric, yes. So let's see what happens. But my hope is that somebody will stand up and call this and actually embolden the Iranians, not just to demonstrate in the street, but to overthrow the regime. Iran is an amazing country. The Iranian people are amazing people. They've always been the intellectuals of the Middle East. When the Arabs first conquered the entire Middle East after Muhammad and spread Islam everywhere, well, the people who ran the Caliphates, the people who ran the Arab empire were the Persians. The Caliph, the top guy might have been an Arab because he had to be because he had to be a descendant of Muhammad. But the people who actually ran things were the Persians. Of course, being intellectual also makes you open to bad ideas. So they also take their religion more seriously than others do. But there's also a strong secular movement within Iran. There's a strong secular forces within Iran. They were established by the Shah, and there's a lot of Iranians which has been exposed to the West. And you could see that in the demonstrators and these women that have had enough of it. If they could overthrow this regime, I mean Iran, A, you'd immediately have a dramatic decrease in the price of oil, gas prices would tumble. Iran has vast reserves of oil they can't get to because they don't have Western technology to go and actually drill for it. Iran becoming a more westernized country would change the Middle East in such a dramatic fashion. It would change the global situation. It would have global strategic implications that are massive and all positive. So for all kinds of reasons, for the sake of the people in Iran, and for all of our sake, we should do whatever we can to promote liberty and freedom in Iran. My argument was we should bomb the hell out of every piece of this regime's autocratic infrastructure. So to help the demonstrators, we should support the demonstrators explicitly. That won't happen. But given that won't happen, maybe we can support them in covert ways, or maybe we support them in morally. I think this is the one regime where the United States is justified in and indeed should be actively, militarily, covertly, whatever way is most efficient, active in undermining the regime and destroying it, whether it's assassinating the Supreme Leader, whether it's bombing the Homs, which is the center of learning. But yes, we should be actively helping the Iranian people bring about regime change in Iran. 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