There have been calls for a national strike. So far, it doesn't seem that the country has yet grown to a standstill. If those calls for strike action do intensify, then thats can bean indicator of where things are going. There's a sense in which something has to give, that this is a regime which is running out of answers. We'e got a supremede whos in is final years. It's not clear what the succession looks like. I think there is now a really open question about what happens to the islamic republic. And the protesters obviously feel that they have the regime in their sihds and they conceive of a life beyond the is
Women are burning their hijabs on bonfires and hacking off their hair—but the
unrest has come to be about far more than the heavy hands of the morality police. The murder of Abe Shinzo, a former Japanese prime minister,
exposed troubling government links to a cult-like sect; the fallout could unseat his successor. And using flying robots as
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