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Iran and the Fog of Regime Change (w/Hooman Majd) - #547
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Hooman Majd comes from a family that reads like a parable about modern Iran: a grandfather who was an ayatollah, an uncle who worked for the Shah, and a folk-singing aunt. Everyone’s family has a version of this, right? -Iran is a tragedy -the sense of triumph has already faded -is Hooman happy the Supreme Leader was killed? -Trump’s motive: regime change, or only regime adjustment? -a ring of fire around Israel -hijab mandates, strict social rules, and the morality police using facial recognition -did the 1979 Islamic Revolution fail on its own terms? -MEK is a cult -is there room for a homegrown anti-regime revolution, or does war smother it? -who ends up in the IRGC? -the girls’ school…