Could Iran be due for yet another revolution? | Battle Lines Podcast

On today's bonus episode of Battle Lines, we speak to Professor Ali Ansari, author and founding director of the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St. Andrews. With the recent death of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, Iranian politics is set for yet another shift. With an increasingly youthful secular population suffering through a dire economic situation, some say the stranglehold of the Iranian clerics known as the ulama is waning. Could Iran be due for yet another revolution?
Contributors
David Knowes (Host) @djknowles22 on X
Professor Ali Ansari (University of St. Andrews) @aa51_ansari on X

[@burtcureton9830]

I learned so much. There can be hope for Iran/Persia’s people.

[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

Not from u they won't learn

[@kenw5104]

9:26 Sometimes it made me think if Iran were to take a different revolutionary path to a constituitional monarch like Jordan, things could have worked out way better since 1979. Great segment.

[@victoriahigman6802]

I love that quote!

[@twodogstaxi5764]

It's fascinating how everyone I pick up in my taxi from Iran claims to be 'Persian!'

[@johnhughes2124]

because they probably don't want to be associated with the regime

[@martavdz4972]

It's like a British person from Oxford calling themselves "English". The language is called Persian (i.e. Farsi), spoken by Persians. There are ethnic minorities in the country who speak different languages, like the Pashtuns, Kurds, Azerbaijanis. Members of the majority ethnicity call themselves Persians to be distinguished from other ethnicities and languages.
I know a guy from Iran, he refers to himself as to "from Iran, Persian, with some Pashtun ancestry".

[@martavdz4972]

@@johnhughes2124 No, it's to denote their ethinicity and language.

[@m-Parsa]

@@johnhughes2124 Persian is an acutal ethnicity, majority of Iranians are Persian, not all. Has nothing to do with "association with the regime". Iran has always been Iran to Iranians, they were only called Persia in the west.

[@kunsa1853]

They didn't need your opinion for the first revolution, not sure they'll do for the second.

[@PapakShirazi]

Iranians aspire to a secular democracy and shall achieve it. The Islamic Republic will become a thing of the past.

[@JasuraliyevNuralixursandovich]

Biden suppper🤘

[@sebastianforbes1]

why can't the Americans just stay out of other peoples' business ?

[@Ophadelax]

Because Iran provides all American allies with cheap oil

[@badluck5647]

Because Iran is providing weapons, money, and training to terrorists groups across the Middle East.

[@m-Parsa]

No.