In lots of respects, we’ve been right here earlier than. In each the 2009 Inexperienced Motion and the “Girls, Life, Freedom” rebellion of 2022 — and quite a few different bouts of unrest in between — numerous Iranians took to the streets of cities throughout the nation to protest an entrenched and more and more unpopular theocratic regime. Their dissent uncovered the failings of Iran’s decaying revolutionary undertaking and the widespread frustrations of Iranians craving for better freedoms. They have been met with crushing repression: Info blackouts, mass arrests and lethal crackdowns.
