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🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | We are the remaining superpower in the world, and we didn't get there by being a bully. |
0:06.2 | We got there through moral clarity. |
0:11.4 | Masa Amini is dead, apparently at the hands of the fashion police. |
0:16.8 | I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green. |
0:18.9 | This episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com and gentlemen, |
0:23.5 | that's not a joke. |
0:25.7 | There are police officers in Iran whose job it is to make sure that women are complying with the strict regime of how they may dress. |
0:36.6 | And you can get busted not just for wearing, not wearing your headscarf, because most |
0:42.2 | women would wear their headscarf, but maybe having a little curl of hair peeking out from |
0:47.3 | your headscarf or not wearing it quite right. |
0:50.9 | Back in earlier in September, Masa Aminii was taken into custody for re-education by these guardians of goodness. |
1:00.8 | And during the three days that she was with them, on September 16th, she died. |
1:06.6 | The streets have exploded with rage, but it's not just, according to reports coming out of Iran, |
1:12.4 | which are hard to get, by the way, because the Iranian government is able to shut down a lot of |
1:16.0 | the internet. It's not just that people are upset that she died, but that she was arrested. |
1:23.4 | Stephen Green, since 1979, and all three of us still remember that revolution, the government |
1:30.5 | of Iran has been in the hands of these restrictive people who take an interpretation of Islam |
1:37.7 | that is as strict as you can get it. |
1:41.3 | And the people have risen up on several occasions back in 2009, back in 2017. |
1:47.8 | If you go into the archive somewhere, we've had a show where we discussed the killing of Netta Sultan, who was shot dead in the streets. |
1:55.1 | And we watched the video of her bleeding out as her pleading eyes looked up at the camera. |
2:00.4 | The people came to the streets at that |
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