These Iran protests are different, and the U.S. must help

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Since 2009, six major demonstrations have been organized against the Iranian regime. Some lasted months. Two spread to more than 100 cities. Some 300 to 1,000 Iranians were killed in protests in November 2019. More than 500 were killed in the 2022-2023 protests after the Iranian morality police killed 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for wearing her headscarf improperly.

It’s too early to know whether current demonstrations will succeed in bringing down the brutal Islamist government, but they do appear different from previous ones, and it seems the downfall of the regime is in sight.

Fred Fleitz joins Kelly Sadler on Politically Unstable to discuss.