The Dig: Iran, 1997-2022. Reform, Reaction, and Crisis
Jacobin Radio
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What Is the Problem With Ahmadinejad?
Vázquez: The Islamic Republic, which as we've been covering in the 80s presented itself as. the Guardian and Vanguard of the Mosa Safin, kind of the disinherited, the wretched and so on is now 20 by 20 oppressors. So there is a mutual fear of this working class uprising, which is in part what's happening in 2019," he says. Vázquez also points out that Iran had tried to control the internet even before 2009 protests with radical slowdowns and complete cutting off of the internet.
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