{"id":265474,"date":"2022-10-18T11:11:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T09:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=265474"},"modified":"2023-02-07T05:51:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T04:51:15","slug":"why-have-iran-protests-lasted-for-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/why-have-iran-protests-lasted-for-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Have Iran Protests Lasted for a Month?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courageous youth clash with security forces in Ilam, Western Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iran\u2019s nationwide protests have entered their fifth week. This uprising\u2019s unprecedented endurance, despite the regime\u2019s heavy crackdown, implies that the situation in Iran will never be the same. And yet, many of the so-called Iran experts in the West who were insisting another revolution was unthinkable in Iran, chose a new conviction and have started to argue that the popular uprising is as spontaneous as it is leaderless.<\/p>\n

Initially sparked by the death of a young Kurdish girl in police custody, protests soon spread across the county and have morphed into what many observers consider a revolution.<\/p>\n

According to the report tallied by the Iranian opposition, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), over 400 protesters<\/a> have fallen for freedom during the recent onslaught, and over 20,000 protesters have been arrested and are under torture.<\/p>\n

As protests persist despite the regime\u2019s attempt to quash them, officials express their utter fear.\u00a0 \u201cSociety has put off fear. People\u2019s fear has now turned to anger,\u201d Nosratollah Tajik, a former diplomat, told the state-run Bahar news website on October 8.<\/p>\n

This fact was confirmed by the regime\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei. \u201cThese animosities will persist,\u201d he told the members of the Expediency Council on October 12.<\/p>\n

This nationwide protest displayed a volatile society where all walks of life suffer from the regime\u2019s corruption, ineptitude, mismanagement, and systematic human rights violations.<\/p>\n

In such circumstances, a new phenomenon began to thrive and drive popular discontent. Born in 2016, the MEK Resistance Units<\/a> became a role model for the frustrated youth who had nothing to lose but a miserable future under the clerical dictatorship. These brave souls were connected to the organized resistance inside the country and continued to challenge the vast intelligence and security apparatus of the regime. Even though Tehran announced many times that it had arrested hundreds of the Resistance Units<\/a>, the network only grows bigger and expanded throughout the entire country.<\/p>\n

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Frankly Speaking | S5 E3 | Dowlat Nowrouzi, UK Rep. of the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/div><\/div>
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