Amanpour and Company

>> LET ME ASK YOU. YOU SAID IT VERY DIFFERENT THIS TIME AND YOU HAVE BEEN SPEAKING TO YOUNG PEOPLE IN IRAN FROM WHERE YOU ARE IN PARIS. WHAT ARE THEY SAYING TO YOU -- >> ABSOLUTELY. >> -- BOYS AND GIRLS, WHAT ARE THEY SAYING TO YOU? >> WHAT THEY SAY TO ME IS THAT THEY DON'T WANT THIS SYSTEM ANYMORE. THEY WANT DEMOCRACY. I MEAN, THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN THE REFORM AND THEY'RE RIGHT, IRAN'S GOVERNMENT IS A DICTATORSHIP. IF A DICTATORSHIP OPENS FOR REFORM FOR BEING TRANSFORM, IT STOP BEING A DICTATORSHIP. REFORM AND DICTATORSHIP DOESN'T GO TOGETHER SO THIS IS SOMETHING NOT POSSIBLE. YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS GOVERNMENT TO BECOME A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT BECAUSE IT IS NOT -- IT IS A DICTATORSHIP AND THEY WANT A NEW -- THEY WANT A NEW GOVERNMENT. THEY WANT A THAT REGIME. THEY WANT A NEW SYSTEM. I TALKED TO THEM AND THIS GENERATION IS VERY, VERY DIFFERENT FROM US. WE HAVE TO KNOW THAT THE TIME THAT THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION HAPPENED, ONLY 40% OF IRANIAN PEOPLE COULD READ AND WRITE. NOW IT'S ABOVE 80% OF THEM. THESE PEOPLE HAVE -- THEY'RE BORN WITH INTERNET. THEY HAVE ACCESS ACTUALLY TO THE INFORMATION AROUND THE WORLD. THIS NEW GENERATION FIRST OF ALL, THEY CLAIM NOT TO BE SEXIST AT ALL. YOU SEE? I MEAN, THE BIG SLOGAN IS

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WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM. AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE WOMEN RIGHT IS THE HUMAN RIGHT. IRAN OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD, IF THE WOMEN WERE REPRESSED AND HALF OF THE POPULATION WORTH HALF OF THE OTHER HALF BECAUSE OF GENDER, YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS. THIS IS SOMETHING THEY UNDERSTOOD. THAT GIVES A LOT OF HOPE BECAUSE AND THE BIGGEST ENEMY OF THE DEMOCRACY IS THE CULTURE YET THESE YOUNG BOYS, I SPOKE WITH ONE TODAY AND HE WAS LIKE OF COURSE, YOU ARE EQUAL TO THE GIRLS. OF COURSE THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. AND THIS GENERATION YOU CAN'T FOOL THAN THE OTHER GENERATION. THIS IS EXACTLY THE BASIS OF THE PROBLEM. YOU HAVE A GOVERNMENT WHICH IS NOT ABSOLUTELY IN TOUCH WITH THIS POPULATION. IT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE POPULATION WANTS. WE THINK THEY'RE THE MAJORITY. THEY HAD A BASIS FOR SURE. THIS IS NOT THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY. IF THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY WAS WITH THE GOVERNMENT, IT WOULD NOT BE CALLED A DICTATORSHIP AGAIN AND KNOWING ALL OF THAT IF A GOVERNMENT IS NOT IN TOUCH WITH THIS POPULATION THAT IT CANNOT GOVERN THEM BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO KNOW YOUR PEOPLE.