Iran Faces a Growing Internal Crisis

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  By Chuck Wald We have passed the six-month mark of the war between the United States and the Iranian regime. Whatever Tehran’s rhetoric may suggest, its theocratic dictatorship is weaker today than at any point since its establishment in the aftermath of the 1979 Revolution. As this situation continues to unfold, it is increasingly important for Western governments and the broader international community to consider the policies needed to help bring about change driven not by foreign intervention, but by the Iranian people and their organized resistance.  The country’s economy, already suffering from years of decline before the war, is now exhibiting some of its worst indicators in decades, including inflation exceeding 100 percent on key consumer goods. Predictably, these pressures have intensified factional infighting within the regime. The turmoil has been compounded by the loss of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the first day of the war, February 28.  Khamenei has be...
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The Tabriz protests are a turning point in the Khuzestan uprising

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 By Reza Hoseani

On the tenth day of the courageous uprising of the people of southern Iran, where the mullahs' regime and its repressive apparatus were concentrated in Khuzestan, where it sent its repressive forces and cut off the Internet almost completely.

Suddenly, the protests of the people of Tabriz surprised the Iran's regime  and shook it.



The uprising in Tabriz, the third largest city in Iran with a population of about one million and 600 thousand people; In particular, the historical role of Tabriz in the anti-authoritarian and anti-colonial struggles of the Iranian people since the time of constitutionalism is a quality in the current uprising of the Iranian people.

The Iran's regime in Khuzestan was trying to pretend that everything was over by creating a military government and cutting off the Internet and tricks. Suddenly, it was faced with the thunderous roar of Tabriz. This, first of all, indicates the ready objective conditions in the society and the change of the balance of power between the people and the rule of Velayat-e-Faqih.

The uprising of the people of Tabriz had significant features:

1- It was very large and a large crowd of people, men and women, old and young, entered the scene, chanted slogans and clashed with the repressive mercenaries.

 2. When the armed forces of the regime attacked, the people not only were not afraid and did not retreat, but also resisted them; In some scenes, it was even the people who attacked the repressive forces and forced them to retreat.

3. The presence of women in the Tabriz uprising was significant

 4. The culmination of the Tabriz uprising was its rise to the slogan "We are not supporters of the Shah and Khamenei, but we are populists.

A slogan that thwarts the regime's and appeasers' efforts to blur the line between the people and the dictatorship, and shows that there is an impenetrable border between the People's Front and its resistance to the dictatorships of the Shah and Mullah.

And the last word is that: Tabriz is considered as a bridge of victory due to its weight and because of its potential and its influential role in the process of social change in Iran, it undoubtedly extends the Khuzestan uprising to the capital and other provinces of Iran.

 

Reza Hoseani is a writer, analyst, expert on Iranian affairs, a human rights activist and a defender of the rights of women, children and political prisoners

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