The Protests in Iran, the 2019 Protests, the Escalating Grievance

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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

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fifth and final episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We begin this episode in 1997, with reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami’s surprise landslide election to the presidency. Then we cover the reformists running into hardliner repression and George W. Bush's War on Terror, the 2005 election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his 2009 reelection and Green Movement protests, Hassan Rouhani and the nuclear accord that Trump then tore up, the 2019 mass working-class protests, and the election (but really more coronation) of right-winger Ebrahim Raisi. We end with the death of Zhina Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police and the current mass protest movement that erupted in response. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our vast archives and the rest of this series at thedigradio.com Buy Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win by Helen Shiller haymarketbooks.org/books/1952-daring-to-struggle-daring-to-win