An interview-based profile by Amber French-Griette for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. It describes his YouTube talks on news and nonviolent resistance, broadcast since June 2009, and his path from IRGC founder to dissident. It covers his reading of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising after Mahsa Amini's death as part of a long paradigm shift in Iran toward human rights, democracy and secularism.