{"id":238018,"date":"2021-04-15T08:30:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=238018"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:58:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:58:51","slug":"vulnerabilities-point-to-regime-change-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/vulnerabilities-point-to-regime-change-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerabilities Point to Regime Change In Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The latest incident at Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear facility is also the latest symbol of the Iranian regime\u2019s thinly veiled vulnerability. Tehran has made a concerted effort to mask that vulnerability beneath provocative gestures on the political stage and in surrounding waterways, as well as persistent support for militant allies like Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels and Lebanese Hezbollah. But the resulting image of strength has been successively fractured by a number of setbacks<\/a> to the regime\u2019s objectives, of which the attack on Natanz is only the latest example.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s inability to protect its own assets is not just a reminder of its vulnerability to outside attacks. It also signifies the erosive effects of political discord and slow economic collapse. Both of these trends have fueled an ascendant Resistance movement that now clearly encompasses all of Iranian society and has been responsible for at least three recent uprisings, and for those incidents that point to the likelihood of more to come.<\/p>\n

Last month, as Iranian expatriates were celebrating their New Year holiday, Nowruz, the Iranian Resistance leader Maryam Rajavi<\/a> observed that large-scale protests in Sistan and Baluchistan Province were signs that \u201cthe fire of the uprisings is rising from under the ashes of the coronavirus.\u201d By that time, the country had gone more than a year without protests that matched the scale of those that began in the final days of 2017, but Tehran\u2019s failure or refusal to manage the public health crisis left the general public with even more reasons to challenge the country\u2019s leadership and the theocratic system it upholds.<\/p>\n

The Iranian people are sick of suffering the effects of Tehran\u2019s weakness and desperation and they are prepared to take actions leading to the overthrow and replacement of the existing regime. This goal was all but transparent during the uprising that began in December 2017, which featured unusually provocative slogans like \u201cdeath to the dictator.\u201d
\nIn November 2019<\/a>, the uprising encompassed nearly 200 cities and towns. It also resulted in even more intense repression by regime authorities. Whereas the first uprising gradually led to several dozen deaths from gunshots and torture, in 2019 the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps opened fire on crowds almost immediately and killed approximately 1,500 people over the course of about two weeks. Later, Amnesty International issued a report detailing the systematic torture that protesters and activists were subjected to for months afterward.<\/p>\n

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