{"id":266938,"date":"2022-11-22T13:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T12:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=266938"},"modified":"2023-02-07T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:10:18","slug":"irans-uprising-proved-khameneis-crackdown-strategy-futile-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/irans-uprising-proved-khameneis-crackdown-strategy-futile-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Uprising Proved Khamenei’s Crackdown Strategy Futile – Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Monday, October 31, Simay Azadi, the Iranian Resistance’s main television network\u00a0conducted an interview<\/a> with Mr. Hadi Roshanravan from the Security and Counterterrorism Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).<\/p>\n

Given the significance of the analysis and the insight that was shared concerning the nationwide uprising, a few excerpts of the interview have been translated for the English-speaking audience. In light of the current systemic atrocities on Iran’s streets, particularly in the Iranian Kurdistan region, these words are making a lot more sense.<\/p>\n

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Host:<\/strong> Mr. Roshanravan, some of the regime’s senior officials have taken a stance concerning the protests. They argued that the state should talk with the dissidents in some way or the other… But there is another faction in this regime that is more aggressive and is calling for a brutal crackdown. How do you view these conflicts of interest inside the regime? How much of it is real? Are there two different positions within the regime? In your opinion, what does Khamenei think about any of this?<\/p>\n

Roshanravan:<\/strong> So far, the regime has already exploited all available methods to suppress the uprising. In this regime, repression has five stages. The first one is prevention. That means they arrest those they suspect of initiating the protests. Once they find out about the source, they focus on it and neutralize it.<\/p>\n

As next comes terror. That means intimidating the public and preventing protests. Either with tear gas, water cannon or even beating the people.<\/p>\n

Third, comes what they call \u201cpeople\u2019s involvement\u201d. They mobilize the repressive Plain-clothes Basij forces and those close to the regime and claim the public is against these movements.<\/p>\n

Fourth is using nonlethal weaponry like cracking down with bird shots and pellet guns.<\/p>\n

The next step is called \u201cthe shock\u201d stage. Like what they did to Zahedan. They conducted a massacre and killed the people. This way, they want to terrify society, hoping to prevent the uprising from escalating.<\/p>\n

But so far, all stages have failed. The regime has taken all steps under the supervision of nobody other than the IRGC. When we\u2019re talking about the police or the Basij, they have run the operations under the IRGC command. Even the plainclothes agents. But tactic-wise, they utilized police gear or plain clothes on the field. You didn\u2019t observe IRGC uniforms, but they did use the entire suppression capacity of the regime. But they failed, nonetheless. Because they were faced with courageous and forceful resistance that was operating in an organizational fashion and didn\u2019t allow the movement to slow down.<\/p>\n

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Watch and judge state officials' remarks about the 'defection crisis' the #Iranian<\/a> regime is dealing with amidst #IranRevolution2022<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Q1D8GE0jD3<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n