Will the Iranian Regime Collapse? 

as Iranian i am thanking all the kind people around the world for their support ❤❤❤❤

We can only hope. Power to the Iranian people! Power to the Iranian women!

Power to the Iranian people! Hope you'll finally get the freedom that you deserve and a government you actually want! Support from Finland :)

My dad tells me stories of when he used to go to Iran before the revolution happened. He went with my grandfather by car, which was a 6-8 day drive without proper airconditioning. They also went to Turkey and Egypt to buy carpets cheaply and then sell them back home and by doing so my grandfather could travel whilst making a small profit. In Iran my dad met a woman with whom he kept in touch by sending letters. He was 21 when the revolution happened and got to experience it through the letters that woman wrote. Let's hope the people of Iran can get the power to free themselves from the vile and oppressive regime that currently rules the country.

I met a lot of people from iran over the past years and one thing i saw in most of them was their desire for a free and progressive country. Best of luck to them all and stay safe!

The morality police...Pretty sure murder is immoral. They should look into that.

As an Iranian living in Iran, I can confirm that the video is accurate, but the title is somehow misleading. you described the situation and its history pretty well. But the video is not represented by its title.

I've been following this for ages , thanks for covering it

I’m Indonesian. And here we dreaded that our country could also be stuck in the state meddling with on how individual should practice religion. Hopefully Indonesia wont be like some countries in the middle east, it will be nearly impossible to make u turn once religious policing is legitimized and institutionalized. Once it does, only conflict through violence is the only way, sadly, for religious rezime to relinquish their hold to absolute power.

I wouldn't say it would collapse right away, but it's definitely starting to show cracks. Every time there's a bad event you can see further determination and desire. This is merely a step towards eventual downfall

My neighbor is from Iran. His family is amazing and he is one of the best guys I've ever met. He said the only holiday he celebrates is the 4th of July, because his freedom is so important to him and his family. Americans; separate in your mind the Iranian people from the Savage 6th century moral throwbacks in charge. The zoomer tik tok generation has had enough of their parents and grandparents nonsense. Its global, and needs to be supported everywhere.

I think the quote "tells you what to do, what to think, and how to feel" captures what the people want freedom from.

Nothing is going to change in Iran until protesters go full Robespierre. Otherwise, the protests are just going to run out of steam as protesters are faced with the struggle of everyday survival, which is harsher in Iran than we might imagine in the West.

Hey British guy, don’t forget about Britain’s involvement in the Iranian coup in the 50s! It isn’t all about America. You guys did a bang up job too!

thanks for shining some light on this, people really need to hear your voice

Thank you for using you voice & helping ❤️💕

Iran is such a beautiful country with beautiful people (inside and out) and rich history. I wish from the bottom of my heart that they find freedom soon. Much love from Brazil

As a Kuwaiti, I hope Iran gets the change they need and deserve. Edit: Tfw, I can't support my fellow Middle Easterners without being pestered by Westoids and Persian Supremacists.

Very well explained video keep up the good work !

We can hope and pray. Irainians, as a whole, are good decent people and deserve their freedom.

Hope the best to our Persian brothers and sisters love from Kurdistan. ❤️💛💚

Persians are more liberal than Arabs and they deserve a government who isn't controlled by mullahs , full support to woman of iran

1:54 legit happy to see this mentioned. Most channels wouldn't have the guts to point out the US's past coups. Good job guys

I am living in Iran and i really appreciate how accurate this video is.

You guys did it again... another great assessment of the situation in Iran. Thank you for putting some spotlight on Iran.

Thing is the an iranian revolution could be either the best or the worst thing - If a functioning democracy is created then it would be great for them and most of everyone else , but a power vacuum may just lead to even more problems in the Middle East

Thank you for covering this story ❤

I am grateful to hear your support. Thank you.

Quality content! Thank you!

I am still keeping this as "Would be nice cathegory" - right now luckily Vlad Putler doesnt have his "Regime carservice" for dictators capacity operational. so there is a chance.

Best of luck to our compatriots that they may resolve these issues without collapsing. 🇦🇲🤝🇮🇷

5:11 "He implemented an ultra conservative and deeply sexist VERSION of Sharia Law" There is no "versions" of sharia law. There is no "liberal, democratic" version of Sharia Law. When you say it like that you imply that there is actually an acceptable version of Sharia law... Its like saying "a conservative and sexist version of Bible law"

Reza Shah Pahlavi was the first Pahlavi monarch, he was forced to abdicate by the British and Americans during WW2. His son was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the Shah overthrown in the revolution and he was only empowered after the coup since he had reigned since his father's abdication

Without their militaries support I doubt there would be any measurable change.

People don't realize or remember that prior to the revolution Tehran was an extremely well educated and cosmopolitan city. It was a fashion capital of the world along side Paris, New York, and London. There was a long tradition of western lifestyle. This generation would know nothing of this but there are plenty of people around who do and have communicated this to this generation, who thanks to the internet, can see all the things they are missing, and now want to have.

Thank your for you support and coverage of Iran🙏🙏

I have a few friends who grew up in Iran, and it's so important to communicate to people - the younger generations of Iranians are NOT like the older. Obviously this can be said of most places, but like, it's SO different! The protests only shine a light on how much.

The main issue I have with Curiosity Stream is that they don't really offer the highest quality (as you claim in the video) - or only for much higher price than advertised in the video. Wouldn't mind paying a bit more for 4K resolution but having the price 3.5 times higher is ridiculous.

The world can help us by cutting all diplomatic ties with our government. Please be our voice in your country. We share the same values as you do.

I hope the Iranians get the control they need. As an American and on a separate note, I hope our two countries become friendly with one another. I would like to visit Iran as Persian culture is so rich.

As an Iranian live in Iran I have to say that all what you said in the video is 100% true

Thank you, you provided information that was unknown.

“Morality police” is a horrifying idea :/

God, how dystopian does "morality police" sound? This whole situation is insane. I hope the Iranian citizens stay safe

i got arrested in this protest and just got released today (because they dont have enough room in their prisons to keep everyone) let me tell you this, we may fail in the end, but you can be damn sure we will fight

I can't believe how accurate your analysis of the situation is, well done research team!

That's a huge triumph for Iranian! You guys are incredible!! 🥰

A popular restaurant in our town is run by an Iranian family. It's mostly the sons now but it was the parents when it opened and they are from rural Iran and deeply religious. They fled in '79 because they knew exactly what kind of a shit show the country was going to become.... and they were right, They are not hopeful at this time. The apparatus of repression runs wide and deep in Iran, the institutions of the state are very powerful and were set up to combat this very scenario. The IRGC, which is NOT part of the country's military and does NOT answer to the government, regularly trains for it. Also, there is no obvious successor to the regime because none has ever been given a chance to take root. They fear that this series of protests will just lead to another massacre or if there is some change to the regime, it will be something even worse which takes over.

Another thing to mention is the rising food prices and general cost of living which is causing unrest in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India among others this will surely impact Iran too (probably is tbh). Also, a Swedish MEP cut her hear and said Women, Life, Freedom in the European parliament a few days ago which will raise awareness directly to governments and could see the children of Iranian leaders targeted with aggressive sanctions which could pressure them to do something.

this was a fairly accurate explanation. as an Iranian i Appreciate your work thank you ✌️

thank you for supporting us ❤❤

Will this be like the "China will collapse in 3 months" that has been running for the last 10 years? :D

Iranian People deserve more ! No Poverty and No Class conflict Iranian People are the most beautiful and Hospitable nations So we can only pray for them.

Very well done documentary

Support and love for my Iranian brothers and sisters from Afghanistan 🇦🇫💞🇮🇷

If only USA didn't make a coup d'etat in 1953 in my country we would had a democracy country 😔

Russia, Pakistan, China, Iran, even the UK. There's quite a bit of political and economic uncertainty in the world today.

I'm an iranian who lives abroad and from what I know the protests have only grown since they started. If you don't know in iran the weekday start from Saturdays and this Saturday would mark the 6th week of the protests. People aren't going to work. Students aren't going to school. Instead everyday they take to the streets and start the protests which are usually extremely large in Saturdays and Wednesdays. Honestly I'm proud to see how persistent my people are. Also words cannot express how much relief I feel when I see how exhausted the police forces are.

For an internationalist and work class analysis try reading the WSWS for a clear political analysis.

Thank you for your support and informing people about Iran. We hope to win this time and free ourselves. Here we are in the frontline of fighting for freedom. If we win the world would change to a better place. #MahsaAmini

You don't need clickbaity titles. Your content is good enough to speak for itself :)

Thank you for your support it means a lot ❤❤❤❤❤💌

You are completely wrong, Mahsa Amini was not killed but died. She has severe problems with her health.

Austin I'm not sure if it was just how you pronounce Khamenei, or if you actually meant the late Ayatollah. But it was confusing

Most revolutionaries become the very thing they initially overthrow

What's the sound in the background, is it a washing machine or outside building works?

The CIA didn't install the Shah, he was already in power, but he did get a lot more power after the coup

I sure hope so

I am from Israel, and one of my long time wishes is to visit Iran and enjoy it's beauty. Really hope that after the coming death of the dictator it will be possible at last

What we want is freedom for Iran. Thank you for supporting.🙏🌅❤️🌹

Could you do a video on Haiti’s current situation??

Pretty miserable? I think it's great. Persian's are very sophisticated and they should get the modern, peaceful, democrativ, civil society, they strife for. @CIA: Just stay out of it this time, will you?

All things come to pass...even evil dictatorships....

Exact and well explained!

Nicely done guys. Great analysis on the current protests and historical precedent. Who knows, in a alternate timeline if Iran wasn't subject to American and Britain interference it could well have been a G20 country by today's standards.

Full support to Iranian women!!

Part of the US Constitution 1st Amendment Right forbids their government from making laws that affect how religion must be practiced or which one must be practiced. This is what happens when you do not have these limits imposed.

Let's pray so

Sure as hell fucking hope so! that's what we're fighting for.

Iran has so much potential to create a good life for its people, both with regard to natural resources, but also in human capital.

If it does I'd be interested to see who fills the power vacuum.

Vould be the right time to enforce a total and complete embargo around the regime. (And I mean even intercepting things from it s allies) that would both weaken the regime but wouldn t be direct intervention on the ground wich would let the locals proceed to organically change things according to their own cultural needs

For the sake of pedantry: If CuriosityStream corrected the sentence "some of the most high quality" then they are wrong. Both "some of the most" AND "high quality" are turns of phrase. By replacing most-high with highest, you break apart both turns of phrase. It can even alter the meaning, because without the phrases, it isn't clear that the sentence is meant as general praise, and it even seems like you're trying to refer to specific "highest quality" things.

Iranians are highly cultured people who value education - unlike many of their neighbours. It was unlikely that they would have accepted this kind of rule forever...they're not puppets...they think about their situation and they consider what is wrong in their society. I have every respect for them as people, but the government should not have expected an easy ride, knowing their questioning nature and intellectual outlook on life

Several things to add: 1) on the revolution, it’s not necessarily that Islamist where an anti imperialist force (although yes in Iran it did have some impact) but mainly it was an opposition between authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, may they be pro US or pro soviet, many of them where staunchly secular by wanting to westernize. The problem was is that these regimes where maybe a bit to radical in their secular reforms, hence the conservative reaction. Islamists in Iran in 1979 during the revolution, where sort of like the bolcheviks in 1917. They weren’t necessarily the biggest faction,even among the opposition, but they were the most structured and determined force. 2) about the Mahsa affair. What needs to be known about it, is that in places like Teheran women have never completely respected the clothing rules. They dress very elegantly and put on the veil in such that you practically 80% of their hair. What really pissed people off with the mahsa affair, is that when look at the images she dressed 10 x more « soberly » (by the regime ´s standard)than most Iranian women. If the morality police was as strict with Iranians as they were with Mahsa, they would basically have to put all Iranian women into custody. But since the morality « police » targets at random, this pisses even some more conservative Iranian, who don’t understand the arbitrary Element of it. That’s why you even have demonstrations in normally more conservative areas of the country. (plus a racial element with Mahasa being kurdish) 3) to understand why the Iranian feminist movement is so powerful, it’s because Iranian women are extremely well educated by middle eastern standard and are practically at western standards. Surpisingly, Khameini did keep some of the bargain stated at 5:00 . 60% of university student are women, and women can have access to some high education jobs. It may seem like a paradox, but the social conservative laws on women actually seem to have helped iranian women to get higher education. Indeed, conservative parents where more comfortable sending their daughters to university knowing that they would stay in socially conservative norms even at universtity. The sort of "social contract" of the regime had with women is that they allow women education and economic opportunities, but on the other hand have super strict social norms for women (like the morality) and practically zero political power. 4) 5:35 TLDR should know better to make a distinction between totalitarian and authoritarian regime. This is pretty important here to also understand how the Ayatollah regime lasted so long but why recently it is cracking. Unlike other authoritarian regimes like regime, the regime does have a partial. Sure, the Ayatollah and the clerics still hold a lot of power and can veto candidates they don't like. But unlike Russia, there was until recently some form of democratic competition, between the conservatives and the moderates. This "democratic" aspect is pretty central for the legimitity of the regime. Since elections where somewhat competitive, Iranians participation used to be pretty high (around 60%). However, in the last presidential election, the clerics where extremely strict in their candidate vetting and only allowed ultra conservatives to run. This lead to a historically low turnout, going down from 60 to 48%. This move by the conservative probably significantly weakened the "democratic" legitimity of the regime.

I personally don't think there will be any sort of regime change in Iran. There might be some talks or something like that with the protesters but it's main motive would be for publicity only. Either the protests would lose its momentum like it has happened many many times or there will be heavy crackdown on protests by their military if it escalates. I hope I'm proven wrong. More power to the People of Iran. ✊

Support for the iranian protestors from italy human rigths are always worth figting

If you have to enforce Social Norms, then they aren't Norms anymore.

The Shah was actually good for Iran though, many progressive policies were passed by him

As an iranian this movement is more intellectual revolution than being just a economic protest against a system than not represents irans majority way of living.

As an Iranian, I'm willing to give my life to put an end to this regime. Enough is enough and we want our country back at all cost.

Persia/Iran has a millennial culture, rich in literature, music, arts. The language is beautiful just like its people. I hope the time will come soon when it finally allows Kurds their own autonomous state and reorganises into a modern, developed society where men and women are equal and equally free, a country that will contribute to the whole world.

me watching this as an iranian citizen 💀

Many merchants and traders are already on strike, and in the last week many oil and petrochemical workers have gone on strike as well. Iran is trying to crack down on the oil worker strikes, which could be devastating to their economy.

This video isn't very good. Iran doesn't have a "fragile economy". It's economy is extremely strong precisely because of sanctions, which have forced the Iranian society to adapt its economic policies. Right now, Iran has an almost bulletproof economy, and if by some miracle the international community decides to include Iran into markets, Iran can easily become one of the strongest economy like China or America and stronger than England or Germany.

As an Iranian, I am thankful for your support and your efforts to spread awareness ❤️‍🩹

I hope if it falls, the fall is gradual otherwise it will leave a power vacuum in the region and terrorist organisations will again gain ground in Iraq and surrounding areas.

1:40 I agree with the "not because everyone loved them part", but I seriously doubt it was "apathy" with the Shah that animated the revolution. If most people were apathetic, few would have taken part in the revolution. I'm sure they were seriously pissed off, not apathetic.

This is similar to what has happened in Romania in 1989

The Islamic regime, not the Iranian regime. There is nothing Iranian about the regime that is ruling iran right now.