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force the Senate to vote to
stop this war.

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>> At the start of the war
in Iran, we checked in with

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two Iranians who have lived
and worked in Wisconsin for

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years but maintain close
ties with their country.

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The shock and awe of those
early days was, of course,

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distressing and terrifying.
This week we checked back

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in with them to see what
they think of the end of

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hostilities. With a signed
agreement between the U.S.

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and Iran. They both said
they don't trust the

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Iranian regime to uphold
agreements, and it must now

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be up to the civilian
population in Iran to take

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back their country, no
matter the odds. Here are

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Ali Soltani and Zara Fakhri
speaking about the Islamic

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Revolutionary Guard Corps
and the regime. In the face

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of the agreement with the
U.S.

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>> Iranians are in constant
war while the IRGC is in

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power and the IRGC has
repeatedly failed in any

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agreement with any country,
with any group or community.

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So that's why for Iranians,
there is no longer hope or

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believing in any agreements
that is done by these

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people. We do not trust
them. We do not believe in

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them. And we are not seeing
any progress because for 47

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years they have shown
themselves. So we also do

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not believe that it's a
real agreement.

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>> What we have to realize
is that this cessation of

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hostilities, peace talks,
whatever you want to call

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it, it's only possible with
freedom for the Iranian

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people. The nature of this
regime has not changed.

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Whether what they're doing
is the result of basically

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military pressure. So they
welcome war. They want war,

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they want crisis. They want
these kind of things to

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suppress the internal
aspirations of the Iranian

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people. So they're there
because they're forced to.

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The real fight is actually
between the Iranian people

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and this regime within the
last four days, since

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Saturday until Tuesday,
they have executed 61

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people, 61 prisoners. That
is one every three hours.

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So they're very scared of
the people and their

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uprising and their
organized resistance.

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>> It was a roller coaster
for all of us because it's

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not acceptable to see your
country being bombed or

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being under UN strikes. But
at the same time, the

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wildest thing that I've
heard from many Iranians is

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that we are even okay with
that. If the day after

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bombing or strikes, we see
free Iran and there is no

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IRGC and they toppled. So
that was the only thing

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that we were looking for.
Although we were all full

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of fear, we were all
worried about our family

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members, our relatives.
>> You cannot overthrow a

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regime with bombing, okay?
From air, it's impossible,

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especially a regime that's
ideologically driven. You

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need the people inside Iran,
the organized opposition

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that we have, they know
every way there is. They

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know the people inside Iran.
They know who is

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responsible.
>> Right now. I think after

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all of the things and
complications that has

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happened, they got even
more confident because they

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faced the war with Israel
and United States. I cannot

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call any other country who
is more powerful in

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military services or powers
in this kind of matter. But

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now they say that we won't
over Israel, we won't over

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United States. So I think
the worst thing that I

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could see after the war was
seeing them getting more

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confident. That's the worst
thing that I could see.

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>> You know, the last four
uprisings in Iran, one in I

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think was 2019 was for the
gas prices that went up in

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2018. I think it was price
of chicken that went up in

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2026. The last one that we
saw it was in started from

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Bazaar because of the price
of the dollar just

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increased a lot. So this
regime is incapable of

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solving the Iranian
people's problems. So as

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long as the structure is
corrupt and you cannot

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address the basic needs of
the Iranian people, the

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these uprisings will happen.
It's a matter of time.

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>> We are full of hope.
>> It has been for 47 years.

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I mean, not the generation
at the time that they were

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protesting or they were
fighting against IRGC the

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second generation of that.
And I know the third

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generation are right now
joining us everywhere, even

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in social media, TikTok and
Instagram. So I don't see

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that anyone has lost their
hope. We we are full of

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hope because we we read the
history. There is no

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dictatorship that they can
last long.

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>> The people of Iran need
to rise up themselves and.

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And they do have organized
resistance. They need to

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basically get the
international community's

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recognition. That's what we
need. We don't need any

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help money. We don't need
any soldiers or boots on

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the ground from foreign
powers. We need their

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recognition and their help
to basically help the

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Iranian people.
>> The first priority for

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all Iranians right now is
to be the voice of Iranian

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people inside Iran, and
also showing the whole

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world that what is real
world that what is real