iran has terrible economic problems, and they stuck bigger bills on average working iranians and they got angry, and they went in the streets. at the same time, there are these other social movements, women saying i m not going to wear the veil anymore. i m going to go out in public, i m going to dance without my veil on. i m going to show who i am. you have many different strands of protests, and they all come together in this, from what we know if you look at the videos, there have been thousands of videos posted online of the demonstrators, of people getting killed, some gruesome videos. you will see this is broad across the nation. it s broad across different ethnic groups in iran. it is something that we all need to take more seriously because there s a real uprising going on here against a regime that has been among the leading suppressors of human rights in the world. let s bring in the former nato supreme allied commander,
praise where we can move these conversations. today you re going to see the summit shift to talk about china in nato, which is a really interesting conversation, but i m hoping we re going to see iran emerge as a talking point at least in the final communique, and over time nato has a role to play here as the military element of the coalition that i hope can pressure the iranians to come back to the bargaining table. it s going to be complicated, but there is a nato role to play in this crisis as well. how pushed are the iranians to possibly come back to the table? these protests obviously even more dramatic, eveni more moe of a crisis for the iranian leadership than those ten years ago in 2009. absolutely, and that is the