{"id":236596,"date":"2021-03-20T13:35:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T18:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=236596"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:02:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:02:55","slug":"irans-uprisings-will-re-emerge-in-persian-year-1400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/irans-uprisings-will-re-emerge-in-persian-year-1400\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Uprisings Will Re-Emerge in Persian Year 1400"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iran<\/p>\n

Today, Saturday, March 20, 2021, marks the Iranian New Year, Nowruz. Seeing as the coronavirus outbreak reached truly global proportions last March, it is safe to say that the year 1399 on the Persian calendar was even more completely defined by the pandemic than the year 2020 on the Western calendar.<\/p>\n

For citizens of Iran, this isn\u2019t just about the suffering the pandemic caused but also the trends that it interrupted. For more than two years before the first domestic cases<\/a> of Covid-19 were registered, the country had been the site of more or less continuous unrest led by activist groups that openly advocate for the overthrow of the theocratic dictatorship.<\/p>\n

The first such protests began in December 2017<\/a> and lasted through much of the following month, spreading to well over 100 cities and towns along the way. Iran\u2019s regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei acknowledged in a January 2018 speech that the leading pro-democracy opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI-MEK<\/a>), had \u201cplanned for months\u201d to facilitate the uprising. Authorities responded with brutal repressive measures, killing dozens of protesters and systematically jailing thousands of known and suspected activists.<\/p>\n

Those demonstrations helped to keep the slogans from the previous uprising in mainstream circulation. This, in turn, set the stage for them to return to national prominence in November 2019, when the regime\u2019s announcement of gasoline price hikes sparked renewed outrage among a population that had already been driven into deep and widespread poverty. Viewing the announcement as a clear sign of the regime\u2019s self-interest and disregard for its people\u2019s essential needs, citizens of nearly 200 cities and towns took to the streets<\/a> in order to once again call for the removal of the existing government in its entirety.<\/p>\n

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Iran Protests: Nationwide Uprising in Iran- November 2019<\/div><\/div>
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