Radio War Nerd EP117—Iran Protests, Politics & the MeK Cult with Nima Shirazi

Recorded January 14, 2018 Guest: Nima Shirazi, journalist and podcaster The War Nerd talks to Nima Shirazi about what made the most recent Iran protests different from the last big protest wave in 2009, and how the western media has gotten everything wrong there . . . We discuss the how the Iran system actually works, the different classes and groups and their various grievances, and we talk about the weirdest Iran story of all: the bizarre ex-Marxist cult MeK, which recently hired half of Washington DC to remake the cult into the sharp point of Washington's democracy spear . . . At 1:46:20 the Nerd and Ames dive deeper into the weird & sick MeK cult . . . At 2:41:48 we look at some current events: North Korea ballistic missile warning scares the shit out of Hawaiians . . . Latest on Idlib and Turkey's threats to take Afrin . . . Check out Nima Shirazi's podcast Citations Needed at Patreon. Nima is editor at Mufta.org.