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are well. So I'm Marissa. I was the one texting you. And I'm

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Frederica. Nice to meet you, Erica. I'm just wondering whether

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little technical matter and. Do you see that? I did.

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I was a background if I have to blur that. No, it looks good. It

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looks very good. Are you able to rotate it slightly to your

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I got it. Okay. That is. That looks and then tilt the camera

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down just ever so slightly. Yeah.

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She is so particular. I just have to tell you she does this on our

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program every week. That's where my skin. Just let me know what

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it is. No idea about that. You look fabulous. I love your

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glasses. Thank you so much. Many thanks. Really quick. I'm going

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to check with our engineers who are recording this and just make

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sure they're all ready to go before we we don't want to make

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sure that you have to answer a question twice. Andrew and Andy,

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how are you guys doing?

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Okay, we'll keep chatting with. Okay.

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Post from the time because in this way, I'm pretty chill. Right

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now I'm not in Milwaukee. I'm in Los Angeles. So yeah, because

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two days ago, it was the FIFA game match between Iran and New

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Zealand. Yeah. So there are a lot of I know it should not be

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political, but for Iranians, also the football match as you

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call it soccer match. It's kind of political as well. So kind of

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there is a vibe also here. So that's what I'm saying. Yeah, I

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was rooting for Iran. Totally rooting for Iran. And it was

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tied, right? Isn't that what happened in that game? Yeah, but

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the point is that it's so complex. You because the point is

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this, the people who are playing as a in football, and right now

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and they're in highest level, they cannot be in highest level

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of representing the country unless they are operating under

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within a system that is controlled 100% by IRGC. And

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they're all also otter, former football players that right

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now they're in prison just for just one story or post. So that's

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that's being said, it's kind of complicated because at the

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same time, we know that they're supporting IRGC. But at the

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same time, they're are kind of representing the country as

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well. So it's kind of complicated. And it's hard to explain

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no, I know you explained it really well in it. So there I am

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sitting on my couch rooting for Iran. Yeah. Okay. And then

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really quick, Sarah. So you will notice that we have far less

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questions than Stephen did for you. And they're they're pretty

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simple. And it's because this is an update. So it'll be a

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little shorter than the first piece we aired. So we just want

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to be cognizant of your time. And, you know, want you to be

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to go. So just to give you a little bit of an idea of what

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we're what we're looking for.

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Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, sure. All right, I'll back out of

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the way. And you guys, I just following up on the football

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match. So what was that like for you and others in attendance

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then as to rooting for that team?

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voice of Iranian people inside Iran and also showing the whole

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word that what is really Ronians and how we are separating

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ourselves from IRGC. We also considered him as a tourism

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tourist community. And I don't know governor. I don't know. I

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don't know what to call them, honestly. So but we are seeing

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them as a dictator that are ruling over our country. And we

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are looking for freedom and getting rid of that and topple

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that IRGC from our country. And that's the good thing for

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also the whole region across the region. Also, as we're saying

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the consequences of them being there because we want to show

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the word that Iranian people are peaceful people as we have

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been since 2500 years ago till now. And we are also want to get

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rid of them. So anytime after what has happened during

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January and this law through the master massacre that happened

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in Iran and more than 40,000 people died in just two days. We

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just want to be their worries and any chance anytime and anywhere

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you're trying to be there. And the good thing was that LA and

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Los Angeles is one of the main centers of Iranian communities

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outside of Iran, more than two or three millions Iranians are

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living here. And also there are a lot of Iranians in around the

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US. So they all try to be there not only inside a stadium, but

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also if they didn't have any tickets, they could send outside

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of the stadium and trying to show the real flag of Iran and

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trying to chance for Iranians and trying to be their worries

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and talking about what has happened during the January, the

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two days that the British regime blocked down the whole country

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and even during the war, they were in black that black down and

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no internet, nothing in 2000, 2006 for Iranians. So we just want

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to inform everyone. We want to say that what has happened, I

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don't know, during the world war or any autobiographical course

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of history, the same thing has happened to Iranians right now

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in Iran. And also, there are a lot of things that are happening

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in other countries, although we are seeing them as our friend

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countries, but there are a lot of bad things that are so

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any other country there is seeing all the consequences of

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IRGC being in power. So that that's the main thing that we do

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even during the time of FIFA. We are also seeing that political

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for ourselves because we are in constant war and the

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negotiation, argument and all of these things, until the time

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the IRGCs and power has no meaning for any Iranians.

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start by asking you, what kind of relief you feel that there is

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an agreement over this war that could be over?

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in power. And the IRGC has repeatedly failed in any

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agreement with any country, with any group or community. So

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

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any agreements that is done by these people. We do not trust

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them. We do not believe in them. And we are not seeing any

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progress because for 47 years, they have shown themselves. So

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we also do not believe that it's a real agreement. And we do not

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think that it's a thing able for them. They also saying in their

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official television, that every agreement or any negotiations

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with other countries, especially you would say Israel is a piece

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of paper for them. I think that's the only truth that they

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always mentioned. Yeah, that is it for them. And we do not

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believe that it's going to change anything. Maybe we are not

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saying anything going back in 24 hours right now. But in a

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couple of months or a couple of years, we'll see everything

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we're coming back to the same spot that we have been before

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the agreement. So there is no change.

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how did the Iranian people fare?

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It was a roller coaster for all of us, because it's not acceptable

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to see your country being bombed or being under strikes. But at

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the same time, the wireless thing that I've heard from many

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Iranians is 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 IRGC

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and they toppled. So that was the only thing that we were looking

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for. Although we were all full of fear, we were all worried about

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our family members, relatives, there have been a lot of

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lives that lost. But we were thinking that we are always

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paying all of the cost for this as the IRGC is paying any

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cost for just being in power. So we were hoping that after

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that, maybe they can get weakened or they can be stopped or we

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can get rid of them by killing a lot of main top levels of the

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IRGC. But right now, I think after all of the things and

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complications that has happened, they got even more confident

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because they faced the war with Israel and United States. I

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cannot call any other country who is more powerful in military

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services or powers in this kind of matter. But now they say

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that we won over Israel, we won over United States. So I think

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the worst thing that I could see after the war was seeing them

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

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did you think about how the war unfolded through the weeks?

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perspectives have you been emotionally you did describe it

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as a as a roller coaster, but also kind of tactically, you

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know, and you spoke to that as well about how Iran is not

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likely to uphold this agreement. But what did you think about

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the way it went down?

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I'm as a person who lives also in United States and I'm also a

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taxpayer for more than five years. And saying a lot of American

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friends around me and talking with them and also autoray running

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Americans. After that, the argument that has happened and

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that we have heard that there are going to be a lot of money that

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they're going to get after this agreement. I don't know whether

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it's right or wrong, but considering that they are getting

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the money and they're getting another fund. So they get more

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power financially as well. So they're able to do everything

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that they have done. And if there was anything that they had to

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step back now, they're more powerful to step in and continue

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that, for example, for having a lot of factories of missiles. And

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they had a lot of places that I can I did not have any idea about

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that after till after the war that a lot of information came out.

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So they can do that. They can put all the proxies in Lebanon,

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Israel, Iraq and Palestine and all of those places. They just keep

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going on with that. So it unfolded a lot of things in that

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matter after the negotiation. And also after the war, we realized

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that because we see you on a very wealthy country, it is a

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wealthy country, it has oil gas, a lot of things, you call it

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they have it. And we were saying that the people are struggling

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with poverty, fluctuations, a lot of things. And after the war,

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we got a lot of information about how they have built a lot of

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factories in the mountain in a lot of places, just having the

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factories of missiles, a lot of things. So it could tell us

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that where the money would go. So they had the money, the use

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dot. And at the same time, right now, we're saying they get

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another funds. So it scares me, honestly, as an Iranian. And

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also, we as Iranians, we warn all the word and that the threat

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of IRGC is not just for inside Iran, but also it happens for

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other countries and across the region, as we saw during the war,

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it was not just between Israel and Iran or between you as an

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Iran. We saw other countries across the region, they faced

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it, even in Kuwait, even in Bahrain, in other countries, they

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had a strike. So it shows the real face. So I think it's just

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saying how they reacted and how they're doing and what they

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have done, just tells the whole story. So I don't, I don't

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understand how we can call something like an agreement with

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So given all of that, the provisions of the agreement about

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the money that it accrues to Iran, where does that leave the

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resistance inside Iran and outside the people?

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We are full of hope. It has been for 47 years. I mean, I'm not

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the generation at the time that they were protesting or

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fighting against IRGC. I'm the second generation of that. And

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I know the third generation are right now joining us everywhere,

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

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

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reread the history. There's no dictatorship that they can last

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long. They can be there forever. And at the same time, it's so

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confusing for us because we see that they faced Israel and USA

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and still are there. I don't have any education about the

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military service and all of these kind of things. But at the

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same time, thinking that if Israel and USA didn't could not or

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they didn't want or didn't have the chance to stop them or weaken

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them, what can I expect from my people bare hands? So the only

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thing is trying to show the world has what is happening inside

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Iran and reporting everyone who is imprisoned, who is lost, who

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is killed. And just to not try to not stop it. And I'm saying

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people inside are super brave. I mean, even the youngest one at

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the 1413, they're imprisoned, but they're still not stopping

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saying what they're thinking of and how they're against the

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regime and how they're against the dictatorship. I don't think

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that they're going to stop, especially inside Iran. And we

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get all of this trends from people inside Iran, how they are

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trying so hard, even when they were under black out, how they

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could get to the internet. I mean, so hard, they were doing their

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best just to get connections with outside of Iran and trying

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to be in continued communicate with all of us and telling what

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is happening inside Iran. So I don't see those people going to

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stop at any time or anytime in the future until they're seeing

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that I already see it's gone. So it's the same for us outside

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of Iran. We're not going to stop at we're we're literally

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protesting and going outside and chanting every weekend. Every

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city, we do have a group of people that are trying to be their

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voice. And it hasn't stopped since January. And I don't think

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this guy to stop ever till we're seeing them gone.

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Is there anything you'd like to add on this?

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I want just a people around the word to see the reality and

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try to stand with Iranian people. It's just it's what we want is

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our freedom and dignity. And it's something that should be

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supported. And they're seeing the human rights for Iranian

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people. So do not to stand with IRGC and do not let the

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terrorism group to tell you what's going on and they are having

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power over anything, even the price of oil and gas. I don't

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want to see that happening in any other places in the whole

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word. And that's the only thing that's going to help the to have

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a better word, a word without IRGC.

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So I'm just going to back up there a little bit. And you said

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that your hope is that people see the reality. What is the

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reality? Reality is that Iranian people are peaceful people.

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There are there are so much into human rights. And there are

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brave people. They are doing their best for everyone, even

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they want peace for everyone around the Middle East that

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they're facing. Right now, although we were under a lot of

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heart attacks, I mean, like strikes inside Iran and we had a

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lot of relatives there. But at the same time, seeing amarets and

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Kuwait and Lebanon being under strike, just because of IRGC

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was really breaking our hearts. We could not stop thinking about

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other people as well. So the reality is that we're just not

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seeing the humanity just inside Iran. But also we are seeing

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that in everywhere. And also we are worried about other

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countries, not only just the Middle East. So we are trying to

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warn the whole world. We don't want to see the day that they're

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getting closer to other places and other countries. That's what

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really matters to all of us.

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Anything you want to add? No, I just want to confirm. Can you

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pronounce your first and last name and how to spell it?

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Yes, Zora, Z-A-R-A, in factory, F-A-K-H-R-I.

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And then can you just make sure we have the right kind of

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information about you? Are you still a PhD student? Is that

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right? Yeah, I'm a PhD and also teaching undergrads at UWM and

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Business School.

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Oh, good for you. Thank you.

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Yeah, well, you know, it strikes me and I don't want to keep it

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too much longer because you're generous with your time. But

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the strikes may have stopped, may have stopped. But that

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isn't... I mean, that's good, right? But it's...

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That's what I'm saying. Some of the things that we are

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talking as Iranians, I believe that no Lincoln and

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Bruce Senate unless they're Iranian, and I do feel them

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because you don't want to strike for anywhere in this word. It

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doesn't make sense. But if you see that this strike goes to

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kill those people and weaken that terrorist activities, yes, you

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want that. That's how we're saying that. But based on the

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news that I'm following, we do have a lot of local channels that

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there are people from inside Iran that they're reforming people

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outside of Iran. There are a lot of things that still go

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and gone into the southern part to be run, and they have heard a

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lot of... I mean, some strikes going on in the southern part

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like at the Geshm Island and the southern city. So I'm not

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sure what's going on and no one is sure. But we're just hearing

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from locals at what's happening and what they're hearing. So I

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don't think it's going to be stopped anytime soon.

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It might be on pause. That's what I'm saying that, but it will

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be continued very fast because the people that we are

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negotiating with and the people that are on the other side,

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they do not want anything and their determination

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do anything at any cost just to preserve the power there.

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So they do anything. So there is no stop.

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Are you feeling relieved that you can speak to your family now

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without hurdles or barriers?

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Honestly, they opened a blackout on 26th of May after almost

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90 days, but the internet is still so slow

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there. However, it's the basic thing that you were asking to

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have. I mean, the minimum is to be able to call your family

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inside Iran, just be an internet. That's the bare minimum.

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But yeah, as a bare minimum, yes, we are happy that right now

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the blackout is over for now.

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Well, thank you for your insights. It's really important.

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Thank you so much. Thank you for having me.

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So I can update you when we have this on our program

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and I can send you the link and you have my phone number.

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So just text me if you have any questions.

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Many thanks.

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Feel free to reach out to me at any time.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Have a great night.

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Thank you.

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Bye.

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Thank you.