{"id":339534,"date":"2025-11-19T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=339534"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:08:17","slug":"irans-permanent-emergency-how-the-regime-governs-for-the-next-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/irans-permanent-emergency-how-the-regime-governs-for-the-next-uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Permanent Emergency: How the Regime Governs for the Next Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian youth create bonfires and street barricades during the 2022 uprising<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On Sunday night, November 16, 2025, a chemistry master\u2019s student at Shiraz University was found dead<\/a> in her dorm room. Student networks say she took her own life; the university said the \u201cexact cause\u201d is unknown and only the coroner can decide. The same day in the Kurdish city of Marivan, a long-serving municipal employee reportedly set himself on fire inside city hall after pressure and threats from the regime\u2019s Herassat security office. Co-workers used a fire extinguisher to save him; security forces immediately cordoned off the area and tried to block any reporting.<\/p>\n

These two cases sit on top of a list many Iranians already know: Ahmad Baledi<\/a>, the Ahvaz street vendor who burned himself after his father’s only means of income was destroyed; Shahou Safari in Sanandaj, who self-immolated outside a courthouse; and Kourosh Kheiri in Lorestan, pushed over the edge by debts, court files and unemployment. Together, they map a society that feels locked in \u2013 and a state afraid such acts can become political symbols and rallying cries.<\/p>\n

In Marivan, officials did not move to investigate municipal abuse; they sealed the scene and silenced witnesses. In Shiraz, the university treated the student\u2019s death as a technical file, detached from youth unemployment, campus purges and the memory of classmates killed or jailed in the 2019 fuel protests<\/a> and the Mahsa Amini uprising. The spread of suicides and self-immolation attempts among students, workers, municipal staff and informal vendors is now read by many as extreme protest against a blocked future. For the regime, they are sparks that, if filmed and shared, can help turn local anger into something closer to 2019 or 2022.<\/p>\n

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