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news, hello, i'm manila chan you are tuned into modus operandi the show that dive deep in the global foreign policy and international relations to examine their methods and patterns and it's history that reverberates in our lives. today. today we will examine the wave of protests that have swept across iran in the fall of 2022, following the death of a young woman in police custody. these protests, however, looking a lot different from protests in the past. woman led and garnering global interest, is this an organic movement or a color revolution in disguise? we'll discuss. all right, let's get into the m o me in the u. s. the women's movement led to a series of sweeping change in laws across the country. for close to a century now, women in america have taken to the streets to wear pants to have the right to boat

to divorce, to drive have agency over their own bodies. now, recent years saw american women don pink admitted caps as a show of solidarity for women's rights. meanwhile, in iran, the women are taking off their head scarves known as a hid jobs in the muslim world. now it's a show of solidarity for their own women's movement, triggered by the mysterious death of a 22 year old woman named massa. i mean me who was taken into custody by the so called morality police of iran for improper where of her. he job facts surrounding the case are spotty at best. iranian official say she died from preexisting health problems. her family alleges the police beat her to death, and the video released from police in iran only show her from the back briefly before she suddenly lapses. while her death is tragic, no matter the cause,

what followed in iran is what's in question. now let's be clear about one thing to question whether or not there was any external influence to what we witnessed in iran does not imply support for that government, nor does it diminish the desire for social change. many iranian women wish to see anti imperialism does not mean prophy accuracy. to question what we see in iran, or anywhere else for that matter, is simply foundational to what defines traditional journalism. and that's what we are aiming to do here. one of the tropes that came from these masa, i mean, he protest if that be her job is oppressive to women. and that's just one of the angles we'll discuss with our guest. she's a lecturer at lebanese international university and mariah university. also the producer and host of a political talk show called the middle east stream on press tv. doctor marwan

osman is joining us now from beirut, lebanon. dr. osmond 1st. we are seeing protests in iran that appear to be female lead. it began as anger over masa. i mean, he's death, but then it's sort of evolved into something bigger. something more broad. we're seeing had jobs being taken off in public. they're being burnt. i've seen women giving speeches on top of cars while they're topless. women have gone as far as to publicly cut off their hair in protest. do you believe the outrage by these women and calls for social reform in iran is organic? or is some of what we're seeing being ad dawn from external forces? well, let us begin by seeing that any group of people in any community has the right to protest as long as the protest is a peaceful one that doesn't include riots that doesn't include smashing public property. and basically putting the security of the public at risk that should

happen anywhere. and i'm an advocate of that. but when any sort of protest, no matter what the demands are turned into a violent one that tends to attack security forces who have no weapons on the police in iran is not similar to the police that he's not like the n y p d or any other p d, there is the u. s. for example. they don't have, they don't carry guns. they're actually, they carry just the times and they, because usually it's not that violent on the streets of iran, whether it's in the house or any other province, but to come to a point where the throats of the security forces are slipped and security cars are on fire aware, arson takes place in certain communities and stick, increasing police stations. even the homes of the civilians that are near police station were stricken by these are sins and by these attacks, this protest becomes

a riot that has nothing to do with civil liberties. and the demands of rights, whether for women, men, whoever it is, everyone's part of the community. everyone has a, basically a right to demand from any authority for any regime or their rights to be met. but if public security is being threatened, if the police officers are being killed, if emissions are found, if weapons are being smuggled from the kurdish part of iraq to the kurdish part of iran, where basically the violence was taking place than this has no more say whether it is a local or an international instigated protested, this is basically something created whether by embassy is found in iran or that are still allowed to be anyone because of this sanctions and because of the and it basically is suffocating a run since 1979 or whether it is from

a regional and western governments that are instigating these riots in these as an wrecking havoc is if you will, in iranian peaceful communities when it becomes weaponized. when you see ammunition, we see insurgents being basically that taken transported from the iraqi site to the iranian side with the sole goal of seeing iran lit, seeing the streets of iran on fire. seeing the pop the public in iran. what's under dire threat than this is no longer a question of civil liberties. it is now a question of col, color revolution being fully supported and aided and abetted and funded by western governments. especially those that voice their concern, and they voice it by funding programs to ignite the streets of southern states like iran. the u. s. has long had

a contentious relationship with iran to say the least. we saw under president trump, his administration operated on the so called maximum pressure campaign against iran . he withdrew unilaterally from the j. c. p. away. that was one of the legacies of the obama administration. biden was v p at the time. now he is post himself. do you see any meaningful differences between trump and bite and when it comes to iran? well, i would answer with a question. did you see any differences when it comes to iraq? when it comes to somalia, when it comes to yemen, when it comes to the other, i just mentioned 3 of the 7 illegal wars that the u. s. is directly involved in across the world. and i say illegal, according to the american law, because the american law, it says that no war the us cannot enter any war without the approval of congress.

congress never approved and you use law. so it's the legal, according to the american constitution. but according to the law of international community, to the international law, everything that the u. s. has been doing is against international law, whether it is against iran, iraq, lebanon, a constant, m, and you name it. i mean that there's history and you could just find it everywhere you look. but when it comes to the relationship with yvonne, i mean since 1959 up until now has the relationship between the u. s. and cuba ever changed low because the government in cuba is adamant on fighting imperialism and fighting. anything that comes against its sovereign state. same thing goes for a ranch before the $979.00 revolution. iran was a very good friend to the u. s. actually it was a puppet government for the us because i'll be a coup against something that happened in the fifty's. but at when the shop i came to power, he basically was a puppet regime in the hands of the united states and in the hands of the

zionist entity as well known as israel. they had no problem with it. the only problem that they had was of her lucian, powerful public popular revolution that happened in iran lead to by said little la clinic. and the people said their word, they stood by their word. they fought against the army that was shooting life bullets and killing hundreds of 1000 of them without them having any weapons, because no one dared to come and help. no one helped the iranians during the revolution. the iranians held the iranians during, during their revolution. and that's why it's as solid revolution because it is by the people for the people. but i mean, what changes had the obama did accept the j. c. p. o. e, that did not even commit to the terms of the j. c. p. o, a during obama times, not even before trump came to power. because if you remember, well,

that was one of the terms of that agreement that iran would get would be allowed to buy a spare parts from boeing for it's a lion and fleet of airplanes. ciboney and airplanes to, to maintain their safety and safety of the passengers. that never happened. also, part of the agreement was to release iranian money being held basically pirated inside united states of america. that didn't happen. and when trump came along, he just didn't like it because he was pushed and bullied by the zionist entity, and he decided to leave it just like he left many other treaties. he didn't even at a fight with your own border and canadians who never have fine with anyone, but he also picked to fight with them. but it's a and i think ink, any possible upcoming whether candidate or an office president of indian suits of america will change that because it's not up to the person sitting in the office. this just use my language but, but that's just off. we're show it's,

it's the president and the not see the america is not really running the show or other people were never changing their position. i mean, you always see a president being changed every 4 or 8 years in america. but when was the last time the head of the ca was changed in america or the head of the i or the had other deep state institutions in the united states? marika? that's the real question, was really running the show in the united states of america. are they in public offices? what's not, they're not, they're not in public offices, just like it's the case in every other country. the people ruling the country are not the people who go on tv. there's a that they are the people who are running the economy, the other people who are running the military industrial complex in that country. but they're the united states or any other. and people specifically the america because it is empire with the real definition of the term. so no, i don't think it's different. i think theme, it's just the file. it's being delivered from one president to another, working with the guidelines that it's being put there by the government in the

mirror. and coming up next masa, i mean me and salman rushdie the controversial author. what are these to have in common? find out when we return, sit tight, the m o will be right back. blue . the joggers archipelago homer, that she goes to san diego garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, is now the location of a very large u. s. military base. you get given med div i to the u. s. government to make a military base and just deported all of tuggle sent people from their country. so big caught return back on the island. no,

but we are fighting. that's why i'm real fighting for the right. so i, we do not consider that the right to self determination actually applies to the trickle. since i don't the question, no self determination, the legal advice we've received is actually the trickle. since we're not at all, not a people for me, it's time to move on and see what we can do for the child said community to return back home. there is no support from the nomination. i commission, i forget united michel, i don't care about child christian people for almost a year. it was not allowed to challenge the west. ukraine is winning narrative is beginning to change. military math will always, from the most sophisticated in well funded propaganda. wasting another $100000000000.00 will not change the outcome.

ah, it's showing your hair a fundamental human right. as a woman is fashion a tenant of democracy? now these are some of the things people in the west seem to value that are synonymous with western democracies. or so we think doctor marwan osman is staying with us to continue the conversation. now dr. osman, through several a u. s. presidents administrations, iran has seen a barrage of sanctions thrown at them. many of argued that these sanctions have created and even fomented the protest. we saw following on minis, death that these u. s. sanctions have created financial hardship for the average iranian, some of even said that the point of these sanctions are deliberately aimed at the civilian population and hopes that the public will force regime change in iran. if

iran was indeed a tender box to these are many protests have the capacity to perhaps become a color revolution. let's start by not taking the western terminology for it, and naming, get the aman. eat protest. because of the tragic death of miss ma saw me was because of her chronic condition. she had a condition since she was 5 years old and that's not saying that's her own father saying it. and the coroner's office after the forensic statement was issued last week saying that my soul was suffering from a chronic disease that and that the rest i had wished her sentimentally. and i took point that she just collapsed as we saw in the video. and she was taken to the hospital and sunday, but not sure. right. so everything that's happening, it's now being basically categorized under the saw me protest,

but it's not the case. we're talking about a, whether these protests are, are these instigated protests are i guess the government or the people? no, it's against both the government and the people who support it. because i don't think, i don't know if you salmonella or of any of your audiences saw millions of iranians who took the same week the pro, to started on friday. they took to the streets to stand by their revolution by their government and stand by what they see as a guidelines of their revolution and as a point to be protected in the revolution. but the was to me to read. i won't show you that i tweeted about it. i was bombarded with bots and with people on me, from names from towel, head to iranian puppet to tell if saying that i'm being paid millions of reality and literally millions of it onions the owls means less than

a dollar because that's, that's so sad. but it's funny at the same time because they don't really know what they're talking about. but these unilateral punitive measures were made to make it hard to suffocate the iranian public, so they can protest and then protest her into riots. but that never happened. they've been waiting for 40 years, 40 years for this to happen, but it never happened because they don't really understand the mentality and the culture of the pool revolution public in iran, they don't understand this mentality because it's not based on a capitalist consumerism mentality. like the west is it's based on these, it's based on piety. it's based on believe that iran is a great nation and that it actually arose just like a phoenix from under the ashes. in 1979, i mean a country that's been suffocating under sanctions for the past. 44 plus years was

able to not only develop at the level of human and education and medicine, also level of weapon making the level of technology at the level of it making use of the natural resources that they have. that's a great, that's a great deal about the iranian steadfastness and about the will to not bow down to any of these unilateral punitive measures. in these protests, thousands of civilians have either been detained or arrested. hundreds of people have died. dozens of them being police forces themselves. dozens of journalists have also been arrested or detained. what do you make of this new level of violence breaking out there in iran? as i explained when we 1st started talking about the matter of riots and violence in the streets of iran, i think that if it comes from whitehurst, if it comes from the cnn, if it comes is if it's coming from sky news and then you have to rethink that one

thing that i teach my students because i, i am an assistant professor at the faculty of and media. i teach my students something very important when you get news, believe 20 percent of it, even if that news is coming from your own bank. why do you have to search and find resources on your own, specially because you are journalists not as public as public? i can't have the means to tell the entire public, not to believe everything that they read or hear, but at least i can educate my students. and what i mean by that is not everything that you're reading on. everything that you see is action accurate. i've been talking on a daily basis with my colleagues and friends in on it has the has been safe. it has been quiet. none of the propaganda that has been for the past that happened over the past month. it all receded. it'll stop. there's just one parts of your own, which is the north western part on the border with you talk, screwed up standard. so having major problems and why we saw the islamic

revolutionary art score bombing iraq's for this not sickly, the order is of re terrorists entities. this he created as terrorists by the united states of america, not only by your bond. so this is, america does not accept them, but it, in them iran when it targets them. but i, i can tell you again, oh, obviously i'm against the incarceration of journalists because freedom of speech and freedom of thought is, is vital. and i mean, it's crystal clear that if you don't have a voice, you have nothing and look at the a numbers of a journalist incarceration, and turkey because the numbers i don't know dr. like, in the kingdom of saudi. i don't know if they have reporters. i'm p really honest with you, but in iran it was proven with evidence. i'm not trying to defend any one, but it was spoken with evidence that some, not all,

some of the reporters were being wished, paid, and basically controlled. i embassies, western embassies in iran, to inside violence. specifically the reporter that started with the news about my saw him and he and said that she was brutally attacked and killed by the police. and as you saw friends, it said she had no bruises on her body. but she passed away because of the chronic disease that she was suffering from. when that is, is told when that is heard by the public, internally and externally, people get enraged because people have a sense inside of them where they tend to like to defend and other people when they are in and hardships, they like to defend people who are being oppressed, but i don't know why in the west, you miss you that against iran, you never see that against palestine or yemen, or somalia, or algeria, or a basically a libya or just against those who are designated as enemies of the united states of

america. i'm not gonna talk a lot about whether it is the truth or fake news or not. i will also say one thing . when you want to know what's going on in the country, you should talk to the public. you should maybe visit the country if you can financially do that. for example, this past summer i visited cuba, i went to havana. i actually crossed the atlantic for the 1st time in my life and went to latin america, starting with cuba, hopefully to have more friendships, nate, and to understand both cultures and to ordinate at the level of global resistance against western hegemony. against a parallelism india colonialism. i had to go there for myself to see the level of suffocation that beat american policies made in cuba. sick time, i saw that that absence of the public eye so that they have free health care that their fia g. h of their fleet, free public transportation. that yes, there is some poverty, but that, that the and the of the day,

no one is going to bed hungry because they are kitchens in every neighborhood that get free food for the people who are in need. so when you see that a small country compares to, for example, to runs nuts wants bigger than lebanon, but compared to iran, that country has been steadfast from past 60 plus years against western hegemony. then you say that it's only natural for iran to stand and face that same gemini for 40 plus or 44 plus years. so it's not a matter of how, how they create instabilities in these sovereign nations. it's war of the matter how the public reacts that these instability is and how they wisely take is to back and think more about the safety of their nation, about the safety and uh, they're basically of their communities and about the future of their kids and the site that no, we don't wanna get involved in anything that is instigated by the west. let us or will that will definitely bring down iran to something similar to what happened in

syria spike. the fact that they failed you been to do without in syria. so go figure out, wonder, imagine what iran still possesses in power to face, such kind of hit gemini and basically warfare against its sovereignty. dr. marwan osman, thank you so much for your insights. today. the death of masa armine, no doubt tragic. whatever the cause around the world, a number of people die and police custody sometimes as a direct result of police brutality. other times an untimely but natural death. but it's also important to discuss why some of these losses are a trigger or catch fire like the b l. m riots following george boyd's death that roiled so many you are cities. there are always underlying reasons for discontent when mass protests like these iraq and these conversations must be had to figure

out the am, oh, that's going to do it for this weeks episode of modus operandi. i'm your host manila chan. thank you so much for tuning in. we'll see you again next week. how only one main thing is important for knox ism internationally speaking, that is, that nation's possess, allowed to do anything, all the mazda races, and then you have the mind, the nations, while the slave americans, proc obama and others have had a concept of american exceptionalism. international law exist as long as it serves the american interest. if it doesn't, it doesn't exist by turning those russians into this danger is boy man that wants

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