Iran’s biggest protests since the Women, Life, Freedom movement of 2022 extending everywhere from Tehran’s grand bazaar to remote villages throughout the 31 provinces.
As per usual, the government’s offering dialogue while employing deadly force, issuing menacing warnings and slowing the Internet.
Every time social movements arise in the under-sanctions, inflation-hit Islamic Republic, the regime outlasts its opponents. Why should this time be different? What are the variables?
We’ll ask about a global stage where Iran’s influence is in stark retreat… in Syria, Lebanon and further away in fellow OPEC member Venezuela. After last summer’s US and Israeli bombing campaign, how resilient do the clerics and the revolutionary guards remain?
Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Daniel Whittington, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.