Inside the Iran Protests: What You Need to Know | Nahid Siamdoust | TMR

Sam and Emma host Nahid Siamdoust, Assistant Professor of Middle East and Media Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, to discuss the recent political protests in Iran. Then Professor Nahid Siamdoust joins as she dives right into the current strike in Iran, exploring where we are in its broader course, before jumping back to the leadup to the Iranian revolution to explore the role of students – and the trust the Iranian populace has in them – in the country’s culture of revolution. Expanding on this, Prof. Siamdoust walks through the widespread nature of the current protests in Iran, extending well beyond the university to women throughout the nation, and across the massive ethnic patchwork from Kurdistan to Turks and beyond. Next, they jump to the murder of Mahsa Amini by the Iranian morality police, exploring the rising tension between the theocratic regime and its diverse array of citizens, before jumping back to trace the inception of the Morality Police from the wake of the Iranian revolution. Wrapping up, they discuss the remaining social group that has yet to be fully won over by the protestors (the military and police) and what that fight currently looks like.
Widespread Iranian Solidarity

Watch the Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12 p.m. EST on YouTube OR listen via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.FM

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

#SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #politics #news #progressive #leftist #democrats #liberal

SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://www.jointhemajorityreport.com/

Download TMR's FREE app: http://www.majorityapp.com

TMR MERCH: http://www.shop.majorityreportradio.com

CHECK OUT MORE from the MR crew:
Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder
Brandon Sutton DISCOURSE https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse
Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow
Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning

OTHER LINKS:
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport
Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majorityreport.fm/

Check out more from the MR crew:
Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder
Brandon Sutton THE DISCOURSE https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse
Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow
Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning

Joining us now Nahid Siamdoust is an assistant professor of Middle East and media studies at the University of Texas in Austin. And now he we are supposedly my understanding is on day two of a three-day strike just tell us what you know about that and then we will go back to sort of the origins of what we're seeing in Iran and assess what it could mean for the future. sure. So today is the national day of students and he runs a historic day when students rose up against Nixon's visit actually during the Shah era. And because students were killed at the time it has become this historical students' day. and it's actually day three today. And what we saw today across the country as we have over the last two days is students gathering in universities all over Iran and chanting slogans and also people gathering in Tehran Azadi Square the Freedom Square to change slogans for the women's life Freedom Movement. It's fascinating to me that this is a holiday that started where there were protests against the Shah who of course was deposed by I guess the beginning of I mean Ayatollah Khomeini and this is the extension of that regime and these are two sorts of disparate regimes but yep the sort of I guess the essence of this holiday remains. That's right, I think what we have to understand about this Freedom Movement is that it's really the continuation of a century-long breed of movement in Iran which started with the Constitutional revolution in 1906 when Iranians gathered to call for the disbanding of the monarchy then and for a constitutional monarchy. they succeeded in doing that and in fact, this movement is very much sort of you know compared to that one because of its leaderless nature.