WTH is Going On with the Uprising in Iran? Behnam Taleblu on Whether This Is the One That Will Finally Topple the Iranian Regime

On September 13th, 22 year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested and
subsequently murdered in custody by Iran's so-called
morality police. Her abuse at the hands of the Islamic
Republic regime sparked
the nation’s biggest uprising since the
2009 Green Revolutions. Over a month later, the chants of
"Women, life liberty" have continued, but so has the brutal
crackdown by the regime, resulting in hundreds of
deaths. Iranian society is making clear that
it wants an end to the system and the people that have
governed Iran since 1979, but
is that possible? And would the fall of
the regime mean a power vacuum filled by Iranian
military leaders? Back home, will Biden's support
for democracy prove more “ornamental than instrumental”?


These questions and more with our guest Behnam Ben Taleblu.
Taleblu is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense for
Democracies where he focuses on Iranian security and political
issues. Prior to FDD, he worked on non-proliferation issues at
the Wisconsin Project and has tracked a wide range of
Iran-related topics including: nuclear non-proliferation,
ballistic missiles, sanctions, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps, and Iranian security and internal politics. 


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