Iran crisis: What's really happening on the ground?

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  Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

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  This is The Point.

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  US President Donald Trump has urged Iranian demonstrators to keep protesting and take names

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  while help is on the way.

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  He also announced that any country doing business with Iran will face a 25% tariff on trade with the United States.

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  Meanwhile,

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  Iran has said the situation has come under control and that it's keeping communication channels with the US open

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  while being prepared for either dialogue or war.

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  What's What's the situation on the ground?

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  What are the underlying causes of the protests and how is the U.S.

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  offer of help viewed by the great majority of the population?

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  Welcome to The Point, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.

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  I'm Lee Shin.

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  I'm pleased to be joined from Tehran, Iran, by Fouad Isadi,

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  associate professor at the University of Tehran's Faculty of World Studies.

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  from Xi'an in northwest China's Shanxi province, Wang Jing,

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  Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at China's Northwest University and here in the studio in Beijing,

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  Jiang Gong, Professor of Economics at the University of International Business and Economics.

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  Gentlemen, welcome to the show.

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  First of all, let's go to Professor Izadi in Tehran.

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