Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100214:19:38:00
The regime accomplished its short-term goals. the problem is, the short-term goals of repression and holding things down oppose the long-term goals, which would be really long-term legitimacy and support. and basically, they're losing that all the time. >> as they lose legitimacy, they're also publicly sort of attacking the descendents of ayatollah eye t toe la khamenei. >> the people who were closest to khamenei, with the exception of a very few people around khamenei himself, those people have all moved to the reform side, they are all on the side of change. they all believe that the revolut...