{"id":236627,"date":"2021-03-21T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=236627"},"modified":"2023-01-28T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T08:13:39","slug":"as-the-world-looks-on-iran-protests-is-due-for-a-resurgence-in-the-persian-year-1400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/as-the-world-looks-on-iran-protests-is-due-for-a-resurgence-in-the-persian-year-1400\/","title":{"rendered":"As the World Looks on, Iran Protests Is Due for a Resurgence in the Persian Year 1400"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After multiple popular uprisings<\/a> spanning the two previous years, Iranian protests became briefly halted due to the coronavirus<\/a> pandemic’s backdrop. This is not to say that the people’s outrage at economic mismanagement and government corruption actually abated. Organizing large-scale demonstrations just became more challenging in the face of deadly outbreaks that affected Iran much more severely than surrounding nations.
\nHowever, one thing that did not become subdued was the Iranian regime’s anxiety over public unrest. In fact, there is reason to believe that that anxiety only deepened over the course of the pandemic, as Iranian citizens became more and more aware of the regime’s abject failure to confront the public health crisis.
\nThe regime deliberately allowed Iranian outbreaks to go relatively unchecked, using people as a means of diminishing the scale of protests over the short term and also as a means of consolidating their control over civil society. Remarks from the regime’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, characterizing the pandemic as a “blessing,” and the fact that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was given the authority to canvas neighborhoods from door to door, ostensibly in order to identify and isolate the infected, confirm regime’s intention of using mass casualties to prevent and uprising.<\/p>\n

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Khamenei dismisses Coronavirus as not that big a deal, even calls it a blessing!<\/div><\/div>
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