Stolen Revolution: Behind Iran's Protest Movements (feat. Bozorgmehr Sharafedin)

Podcast: The Iran Breakdown with Mark Dubowitz (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Stolen Revolution: Behind Iran's Protest Movements (feat. Bozorgmehr Sharafedin)Pub date: 2026-06-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEvery Iranian revolution begins with an ordinary life hitting an extraordinary wall. Stolen Revolution captures those moments — the personal reckonings with a regime that promised faith and delivered suffocation. Co-authored by award-winning journalists Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, the book traces six Iranians living the full arc of modern Iranian history: a Khomeini devotee cast from power, a poet who gave voice to a generation's shattered dreams, a bureaucrat who risked everything to expose state corruption, an entrepreneur crushed by the security apparatus, and two young women who joined the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.Iran International's Bozorgmehr Sharafedin joins FDD Iran Program Senior Director Behnam Ben Taleblu to unpack the human stories behind Iran's seismic shift from reform to revolution, and what they reveal about life under the Islamic Republic.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FDD, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.