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Protests in Iran

The LRB Podcast

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Is Iran's State Repression Getting Worse in Border Areas?

The state could still sort of be far more brutal than it has been in Iran, says Owen Bennett Jones. The inability of ISIS to recruit Iranians was a big failure story for the terror group's recruitment campaign. It is better to be a Sunni in Iran than a Shia in Bahrain, he adds.

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