Iran

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Video 1 - Transcription

Before the revolution in 1974, they... No, don't correct me if I got the date wrong. It's somewhere in the 1970s. Pretty sure it's just 1974. But somewhere before then, they had a certain degree of religious freedom. And so they really enjoyed that. A lot of them became Christian and things. But then in the revolution, it was a very Islamic revolution, a lot of them lost that freedom. You can't... You have to be Muslim there now. And so the thing is, what I meant is that throughout that history, a lot of Iranians are thirsty for that freedom now. And that's why you have a lot of them leaving or trying to leave the country. It's because they are unhappy with the government there. And they want to be able to have that freedom that they used to have. It's kind of like that. You have something, you take it away. People don't really like that. That did happen in Iran when it comes to religious freedom.