CNN International/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour welcomed former colleague Reza Aslan, whom she labeled an “Iranian-American religious scholar,” to her Friday show to discuss what the future holds for ordinary Iranians after the current war ends. According to Aslan, it is the United States’s fault that previous protest movements have failed to topple the regime because we have “been doing the tyrant’s work for him.”
Amanpour’s question was actually not that bad, “What hope do the Iranians have? Let’s say this war ends or the bombing campaign ends and the regime is still in place. This is the regime that killed so many people and really crossed, if there was a line that it was going to cross, it really crossed the line of barbaric behavior to its own people in January. How do people who want change actually try to affect change?”
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