Analysis of Recent Iranian Protests

Since 1996, they no longer want anything from the government.

Did you see the people, in what happened in 2021 and 2022, asking the government for anything at all?

Did you see the people ask the government for something at all? For example, say, “Sir, dismiss so-and-so.”

Dismiss him.

For example, dismiss Pezeshkian.

Did you see the people say, for example, I don't know,

“Carry out such-and-such political reform”? They didn't.

They said, “Carry out such-and-such economic reform.” No.

The people say the target is the entire regime. The entire regime must go.

Since 1996, this national revolution has been under way.

The reason I say this is that I've heard some people who consider themselves authorities

say that what happened in Tehran for several months, this

was a riot.

This isn't a riot. This is a revolution.

I know the differences between reform, riot, coup, and revolution very well

because it was my field. I studied it at university.

Reform means you don't want to overthrow the foundation of the government

کنید.

You want to carry out some reforms in the government

Reform, unless it seeks to remove the entire government,

is usually reform from above.

Reform from below usually doesn't work very well.

It's usually reform from above. Khatami wanted to reform

it. It came from above, from within the government.

This, in Dey of 1396, 1398, 1401, and

1404, isn't reform in nature. It's of the nature of a revolution.

It doesn't want to reform it, it wants to destroy it.

That's about reform.

As for a coup, the government

comes in and

names it as a—