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Posted on 01/20/2026 6:19:22 AM PST by Eleutheria5
In this episode of The Winston Marshall Show, I sat down with Iranian activist and campaigner Lily Moo for a harrowing and urgent conversation on the unfolding crisis inside Iran, the collapse of the Islamic Republic’s legitimacy, and the fight for freedom.
Lily explains what she is hearing directly from contacts and family inside Iran amid widespread blackouts, mass arrests, and violent crackdowns by the IRGC. We discuss the scale of the protests, the reported death toll, and why many Iranians believe the country is now in a revolutionary moment rather than another failed uprising.
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A powerful and deeply personal conversation about revolution, exile, courage, and whether Iran is finally approaching a decisive break with its past.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:40 Lily’s Activism & Life Under Threat
05:35 Leaving Iran, Assimilating in Britain & Loyalty to the Crown
08:24 IRGC Threats on British Soil
10:12 What Is Actually Happening Inside Iran Right Now
12:06 Reza Pahlavi, Monarchy & the Question of Leadership
16:01 Economic Collapse, Sanctions & the Spark of Revolution
19:39 Regime Fear, Military Pressure & Strategic Deterrence
24:34 Is This a Revolution or Another Uprising?
30:46 Blackouts, Mass Killings & First-Hand Testimony
35:50 Why This Moment Is Different
37:07 Persian Identity, Zoroastrian Roots & National Memory
41:30 Religion in Iran: Islam, Christianity & Conversion
45:57 Regime Change, Chaos & the Fear of the Unknown
48:10 Can Reza Pahlavi Actually Govern?
52:45 Foreign Intervention, History & Legitimacy
56:46 Who Would Run Iran After the Regime Falls
1:01:43 London Protests, Activism & Calling Out the BBC
1:05:16 Final Reflection
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Winston Marshall is all that these "journalists" should be. He does his homework. He asks real questions.
Yeah but holding up signs and marching through the streets never solved anything.
They’re doing much more than that. Take the time to listen to this woman, and watch the videos from location on the Tousi channel.
Martin Luther King may disagree with that.
We cannot afford to miss this opportunity. The Ayatollahs and Revolutionary Guard need to be ousted as soon as possible to give the opposition a chance to solidify their power before Democrats get back in office and resume their shipping of pallets of cash to Iran and propping up the Ayatollahs and suppressing the Iranian people. .
Not to mention allowing them to restart their nuclear weapons projects.
Amen. I remember the kids sent over to the US in ‘79. Some of them were upstanding young men and women. But some of them were taking advantage of the situation, in a strange land with no parents nearby, to become punk juvenile delinquents. Even the good ones were often PITAs. The reign of terror can’t be over soon enough.
Bkmk
All these Iranians living in the West just push the West’s propaganda. She’s exaggerating by a wide margin the number of deaths. The Iranian people themselves are not rising up. Our Gulf Arab allies said we can’t use their bases for any attack on Iran. Russia and China have drawn a red line and will not allow Iran to fall. The US and Israel will pay a very heavy price if they attack.
“We can’t be bothered by the slaughter of muslim young people by a brutal regime in Iran. Trump hurt out feelings and said mean things. We have to protect the illegal alien child predators, who are our neighbors” - DNC
“The US and Israel will pay a very heavy price if they attack.”
What? You mean this time? Worse than two years of non-stop war from every direction? Russia can’t make mud out of sand, and China...? Seriously.
“All these Iranians living in the West just push the West’s propaganda. She’s exaggerating by a wide margin the number of deaths.”
And you know this because...? Whose propaganda are you pushing.
They’re not all Muslims. If anything, the Ayatollahs’ repression have made a lot of Christians, though they have had to hide that under pain of death. Numbers unascertainable, until the regime is gone.
Irony.
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Unlike you I’m not pushing propaganda. I listen to all sides and have many different sources. Last time around Israel begged the US to get a ceasefire because they were running out of anti missile rockets. That won’t work this time. Iran just tested an ICBM the other day that was fired into Siberia. They have top notch missiles and now have top notch air defense with Russian s-400 and Chinese anti aircraft systems said to be as good if not better than the Russian system. China most likely provided Iran with anti-ship missiles capable of taking out an aircraft carrier. Our regional allies won’t allow the bases in those countries to be used against Iran and won’t let us use their airspace. Iran wiped out the people we sent to cause an insurrection. So what’s left another bombing? What’s that gonna accomplish? Another war will see most of Israel’s vital infrastructure taken out. If you want to risk all that go ahead but don’t whine about it later. If the US loses an aircraft carrier Americans will blame Israel for dragging us into this mess.
“Unlike you I’m not pushing propaganda. I listen to all sides and have many different sources.”
So spill the sources. Are they “anonymous”? “Propaganda” is an overused term, which now means anything that is inconsistent with one’s own agenda, and therefore must be dismissed out of hand to further that agenda.
“Another war will see most of Israel’s vital infrastructure taken out. If you want to risk all that go ahead but don’t whine about it later.”
Who’s advocating another war. I sure don’t want one, having been on the receiving end of this recent one, including Iranian missiles, and I’ve said so repeatedly. Trump doesn’t want one. America and Israel “intervening” can mean any range of options, from covert ops which are probably underway as we speak, to a coup de grasse at a critical moment, to all-out war. To a hammer, the world is nothing but nails. People, however, have imagination. Try using yours.
All that crap that Iran allegedly got from China and Russia will be moot, if the regime is gone, and the Iranian people can build whatever democratic institutions they want, whether a constitutional monarchy along the lines of England, or a Republic along the lines of the US, or something uniquely Iranian of which we have no conception at present, not being Iranian.
Russia’s been failing to conquer Ukraine for four years. Their war toys are overrated, as has been proven on the battlefield. China has internal economic problems, from the real estate bubble that’s popping to a youthful rebellion. I don’t think they want to waste much time on a failed vassal state. Waiting for the right moment to move on Taiwan would be more of a priority, and an all-out war with the US, Israel and Iran, which is not happening, would be the perfect opportunity.
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