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Source: https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/trump-iran-interview-crf67j8cx
Iran's Extremists Want War
(The Times-UK) Gabrielle Weiniger - The French-Iranian author Fariba Hachtroudi, 74, believes that Tehran wants conflict. "The extremists want war," she says. "They are ideological, those behind Khameini, they will go to the end and die for this. They think that for 47 years they have done that, and they can continue like this without giving a damn about Iran." Hachtroudi says that any assurance the regime had given Trump it would not execute detainees was false. "Those prisoners will stay for a long time, anybody who they have even the slightest suspicion to be connected with armed or outside opposition, they will keep in jail and they may face the death sentences later. But they have a problem - there is no more room in jail, the jails are full." She fears that the unrest is far from over, that another round is coming. "The people haven't finished...and the Iranians will not retreat. Already, right now, we're seeing voices rising up from inside Iran, inside parliament, on the streets, the students, the very numerous dissident clergy, journalists and even inside the police, the guards and the army. It shows that things are likely to move rapidly."