{"id":3993,"date":"2022-10-18T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2022-10-24T23:14:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T22:14:34","slug":"video-protests-sanctions-and-regime-change-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=3993","title":{"rendered":"Video: Protests, sanctions and regime change from above"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iran: Protests, sanctions and regime change from above\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hDZd9QiKmi4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Via Red Line TV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>HOPI chair Yassamine Mather takes part in a debate on the wave of protest hitting Iran, along with author Nasrin Parvaz,  David Miller (Palestine Declassified), and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With tens of thousands of Iranians protesting on the streets, we were joined by three commentators who have been following the events closely &#8211; and who have very different views on the nature and the reasons for the protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We discussed:<br>** Should socialists support the protests or are they an example of an attempt to create \u2018regime change from above\u2019?<br>** Should we urge our own governments to intervene in support of the protests?<br>** Is the government of Iran an example of a non- or even anti-imperialist regime? Does that meant we should support it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOPI chair Yassamine Mather takes part in a debate on the wave of protest hitting Iran, along with author Nasrin Parvaz, David Miller (Palestine Declassified), and others. &#8220;With tens of thousands of Iranians protesting on the streets, we were joined by three commentators who have been following the events closely &#8211; and who have very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=3993\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video: Protests, sanctions and regime change from above&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiovideo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}