Challenging Iran, With YouTube Views
Summary
This page reposts Neil MacFarquhar's New York Times profile of Mohsen Sazegara. It traces his path from Khomeini aide and Revolutionary Guards co-founder to prisoner and exile. From his Virginia basement he posts nightly YouTube videos urging nonviolent resistance rooted in Rumi-style mysticism rather than martyrdom, and he calls the regime's flaws structural. The piece notes falling views and diaspora critics. Sazegara denies leading the movement and says he opposes military action.
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