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Iran, 1997-2022: Reform, Reaction, and Crisis
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The Protests in Iran, the 2019 Protests, the Escalating Grievance
There had been protests and strikes from working class Iranians and workers in 2017, 2018 so that they hadn't risen to this level but there is a kind of sense of escalating grievance. This is a moment where the Islamic Republic perhaps in some, on some level, remembering the extent to which images and videos of the 2009 protests flowed all over the country has since even earlier been trying to control the internet. We see those same tactics being used today as radical sort of slowdowns and even complete kind of cutting off of the internet. It's just one other thing I think is really kind of interesting which these protests actually show is that the Islamic Republic which as we've been covering in the 80s presented
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