reza aslan joins me to talk about what happens next. good evening and welcome to the show. war crimes that s what russia seems to be carrying out in its war against ukraine. earlier today russian forces bombarded the city of zaporizhzhia, killing 17 people and wounding dozens of others. the shelling was concentrating on number apartment complexes in one of zaporizhzhia s most densely populated residential areas. marking a clear instance of vladimir putin s invading army roth laws of war. upstanding doubly, the strikes serve as a particularly dastardly reprisal for ukrainian military games on the battlefield against russia in recent weeks. the most noteworthy of which occurred yesterday, when ukrainians destroyed a massive brae ridge linking rachel what the kremlin peninsula. a critical surprise route for the kremlin s forces. as you might imagine, a thin skin putin is not taking this well. on the contrary, he s renewed his nuclear saber rattling. unnerving western a
You also write in your piece, quote, if we start seeing the younger clergy and seminary students break from their elders and join the protests on the street, that may truly signal the end is near for the regime. do you think that s really on the carts? if not, how do you see this movement, this moment ending? there are three major revolutions that happened in iran in the 20th century. 1906, 1953, and 1979. all of them involved precisely this kind of younger, progressive claude g seminary students who eventually joined the young revolutionaries and that business interests. that coalition, the business interests, the young people, and this scenario students, it is what has always been the recipe for a successful revolution, for better or worse in iran. it should be important this is very important for people to understand who don t understand the complexities of iran, yes, that there is a clerical regime.