{"id":254539,"date":"2022-01-19T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=254539"},"modified":"2023-02-02T07:39:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:39:56","slug":"poverty-is-taking-to-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/poverty-is-taking-to-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty is Taking to the Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Ebrahim Raisi was installed as president, he promised to offer solutions to the numerous crises engulfing the regime, vowing he would initiate “transformation”. Five months into his term, there hasn\u2019t been any indication that he has taken any steps to \u201ccontrol the crises\u201d or initiate meaningful \u201cchange.\u201d \u00a0On the contrary, regime officials are constantly issuing warnings about the critical situation and serious dangers the regime is facing.<\/p>\n

Showing up on state TV<\/a> on January 16, the interior minister Ahmad Vahidi and his deputy, Taghi Rostamvandi offered some serious comments that put the regime\u2019s fragile state on display. Taghi Rostamvandi talked about the growing “desire for fundamental change in the country” that has gone beyond streets and has reached the higher echelons of power. According to the deputy interior minister, there\u2019s a “tendency towards secular governance within the structure of the system\u201d.<\/p>\n

He then warned that when people learn that the religious state is unable and helpless in solving the challenges the country is facing, they will be looking for non-religious governance, suggesting that this should sound the alarm for the regime.<\/p>\n

These comments, made while Ahmad Vahidi<\/a> was listening, speak volumes about the chaos that exists behind the scenes, in the regime\u2019s upper echelons. The turmoil caused by the severity of the crises and the threat of fierce uprisings and rebellion was described by Vahidi on the same TV program as “very dangerous”, warning that “in such a society, anything can happen easily”.<\/p>\n

Rostamvandi also spoke of the “desire to protest” in the rebellious society of Iran, where people tend to “come to the streets” and form “more intense rallies” with \u201cnorm-breaking behaviors.”<\/p>\n

These confessions at the highest official levels of the regime are just the tip of the iceberg due to the intensity of what is transpiring under the skin of the nation. These are signs that reveal the Supreme Leader is beginning to lose his grip.<\/p>\n

The same calls are echoing through the chambers of the regime\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n

Parliament deputy Mehdi Asgari said on January 9: “We should worry about the consequences of the gap between the people and the state”.<\/p>\n

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