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How are regular Iranians coping with months of war and economic pressure? How have U.S. and Israeli attacks changed their perception of their own government?
Journalist Ali Hashem spent weeks in Tehran since the war began and argues that Iran’s current leaders have adapted and unified over the course of the conflict. Hashem sat down with FP Live’s Ravi Agrawal to discuss what he’s been seeing and hearing in the country.
Watch the interview at ForeignPolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/live/ali-hashem-inside-iran
0:00 Intro
2:31 The mood in Tehran
10:00 Iranian support for their government
14:50 How Iran views the U.S.
18:30 The calculus of Iran’s leaders
25:40 Iran’s internet
30:11 Economic impacts
32:11 Regime change?
37:05 Iranian public opinion
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How are regular Iranians coping with months of war and economic pressure? How have U.S. and Israeli attacks changed their perception of their own government?
Journalist Ali Hashem spent weeks in Tehran since the war began and argues that Iran’s current leaders have adapted and unified over the course of the conflict. Hashem sat down with FP Live’s Ravi Agrawal to discuss what he’s been seeing and hearing in the country.
Watch the interview at ForeignPolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/live/ali-hashem-inside-iran
0:00 Intro
2:31 The mood in Tehran
10:00 Iranian support for their government
14:50 How Iran views the U.S.
18:30 The calculus of Iran’s leaders
25:40 Iran’s internet
30:11 Economic impacts
32:11 Regime change?
37:05 Iranian public opinion
On the go? Listen to FP Live as a podcast at link.chtbl.com/foreignpolicylivepodcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
FP Live is Foreign Policy's forum for live journalism that brings leading foreign-policy experts and thinkers together to analyze the world's biggest events. Visit foreignpolicy.com/live for the full conversation and more live journalism from Foreign Policy.
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