When Students Rise, Tyrants Tremble

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By Struan Stevenson Throughout modern history, student uprisings have served as one of the clearest indicators that a regime has entered its final and most dangerous phase. Young people possess a unique capacity to sense political decay long before many others. They see through propaganda, reject hollow promises, and refuse to accept a future stolen by corruption, repression, and incompetence. When students pour onto the streets in large numbers, authoritarian rulers have every reason to fear the consequences. The latest wave of protests sweeping Tehran, Mashhad, and Hamedan should therefore ring alarm bells throughout Iran’s ruling establishment. Thousands of students have risen in defiance of discriminatory educational policies, arbitrary changes to university entrance regulations, and mounting pressures imposed by a regime increasingly detached from the realities facing ordinary citizens. Their demands concern far more than examinations and academic records. These demonstrations r...
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Iran’s Crises In 2019, The History Will Be Written

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I read an excellent analysis of the Velayat-e Faqih’s regime engulfed by internal and international challenges on the website of the Iran Freedom.
In this article, while explaining the crises of the Iranian regime, pointed at the main parameter that will guide Iran’s crisis in 2019 towards its downfall. And finally what is the utmost challenge that the regime would be facing in 2019?


I invite you to read this highly informative article. Read more...

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