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Sara’s term for the large non-ideological Iranian middle that can shift toward or away from the regime under pressure.
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mushy middle
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the ones who are armed and then there is the poor middle the mushy middle the 40 50 that can go now this way..."
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"...the ones who are armed and then there is the poor middle the mushy middle the 40 50 that can go now this way..."
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"...to take the hardest classes you know living off the brown middle school again being so Turns out that was different. uh she you..."
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"...up one way and one the other way. And that the middle section is like a even cylinder and the other two sections are..."
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"...of love perverted. The last three profane love excessive and the middle one sloth is loved effective."
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"...there's a big like circle where there's a source in the middle which is the monad so like energy and all and so it..."
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"...like the fact of like how many reigns are in the middle ages and how many of them are alive and how many of..."
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"in middle ages you can't okay so it's trying to imitate the real world as much as possible"
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"...that it is what that moves him to God as a middle schooler. Because the minute he saw the signs and the design and..."
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"...tel aviv or like this like red for example also the middle class people are more open and uh homosexual and they're not really..."
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"...was indeed a full -grown kestrel, and both fell into the middle of the boiling pond. The heat was quick to disentangle them, but..."
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"...okay, then work hard for the next six years in your middle school so you can get to a good, you know, undergraduate school,..."
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"It gripped his belly with his middle feet and with its forefeet grappled his two arms, and then it sank its teeth in both..."
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