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In the past few weeks, Iran has been shaken up by the largest protest since the 1979 revolution. Mass killings of protestors by the Irainian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) has demonstrated that repression has continued to work due to organizational deficiences and exploitation of individual pain thresholds. But internal defections from security forces and strikes from the Bazaari class show that the regime is on borrowed time. Without extensive economic reform, the Ayatollah Khamenei cannot expect to repeatedly kill his way to maintaining power. However, it will take absolute and an enduring resolve from Iranian protestors and support from international power centers to bring about change for the first time in almost 50 years.
Music:
Tomasz Redman
Noah Tan
Video clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5F-_0Rc-q0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttTJauaO6nc
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XQbOiiiAMl4
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