{"id":236669,"date":"2021-03-22T13:13:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T18:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=236669"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:02:44","slug":"hardship-persists-for-iranians-at-persian-new-year-1400-as-hope-emerges-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/hardship-persists-for-iranians-at-persian-new-year-1400-as-hope-emerges-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardship Persists for Iranians at Persian New Year 1400, as Hope Emerges on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Protest in Iran (file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This weekend marked the Iranian New Year holiday, Nowruz. Iranians ventured into the year 1400 on the Persian calendar, they will be facing considerable threats, but also considerable opportunities. The preceding year has been fraught with numerous hardships including economic collapse, worsening regime repression, and a coronavirus outbreak that is by far worse than any other in the Middle East. Each of these issues will surely persist well into the forthcoming year, but if recent experience is any indicator, they will also help to fuel an ascendant protest movement that poses an ever-greater challenge to the existing theocratic dictatorship.<\/p>\n

Public unrest and regime\u2019s reprisals have been caught in a feedback loop for more than two years, but even though the Iranian people have suffered terribly from it, they have also made significant progress in their fight to transform Iran into a truly democratic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n

That effort began in earnest at the end of 2017, with a nationwide uprising<\/a> that brought stark, anti-regime slogans more fully into the mainstream than ever before. It continued through scattered protests encompassing the entire following year, then reached a new crescendo in November 2019 with an even larger uprising<\/a>. In the final years leading up to this Iranian New Year, public unrest seemed to be on the rise again, first in the form of mass protests by pensioners and later in the form of clashes between citizens and repressive forces in the border province of Sistan and Baluchistan.<\/p>\n

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Protests continue in Saravan & Sistan & Baluchestan province in Iran<\/div><\/div>
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