{"id":228262,"date":"2020-10-21T12:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T11:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=228262"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:38:23","slug":"effects-of-recent-major-iran-protests-continue-to-terrify-mullahs-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/effects-of-recent-major-iran-protests-continue-to-terrify-mullahs-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Recent Major Iran Protests Continue To Terrify Mullahs\u2019 Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The November 2019 protests in Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iranian regime\u2019s officials have been warning one another for years about the potential for a new revolution in the country. They may not express it in quite those terms, but their anxiety about an expanding Resistance movement has been clear at least since January 2018, when Iran was rocked by the most significant anti-regime uprising since 2009.<\/p>\n

In fact, the 2018 uprising<\/a> was arguably even more significant. Whereas the sheer size of 2009 demonstrations in the capital city of Tehran was virtually unprecedented, the same can be said of the sheer breadth of the 2018 uprising. It encompassed approximately 150 cities and towns, including some whose poor, rural residents were widely presented by the regime as its base of support.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, while the 2009 uprising began after the sham presidential elections and it was due to the raft at the top of the regime, the 2018 uprising featured a much farther-reaching anti-regime tone. It was defined by chants such as \u201cdeath to the dictator,\u201d and \u201creformists, hardliners: the game is over.\u201d These left little question about the popular disregard for both factions of mainstream Iranian politics, or about the people\u2019s appetite for regime change.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIran\u2019s Year of Uprising\u201d<\/div><\/div>
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