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Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒
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"Death to Khamenei!" they chant, as they march through streets of Tehran, with one young woman piping up, "Don't say that one."
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ویدیوی دریافتی: «چهارراه توحید کف خیابون آزادی» #شعار ها: «مرگ بر #خامنه‌ای» «#رفراندوم، رفراندوم، اینه شعار مردم»
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In 2009, regime denizens and their Western apologists kept saying rural Iran supports the regime and only sliver of rich kids in Tehran oppose it.
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BBC video from a small town Abhar, Iran shows protestors taking down Iran Supreme Leader’s banner
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In 2009-10 protests regime strangled protests by redeploying elite forces to the cities from countryside. But this time the protests are in the countryside, so different strategy needed.
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Picture purports to show protesters setting fire to prosecutors office in city of Kashan, underscoring blatantly political nature of uprising.
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Kurdistan rising: Calls for protests in all of Kermanshah province, in all districts and towns, at 1600 local time tomorrow, Sunday, December 21 (10 Dey)
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Tehran-based social scientist: "I don't know what to think. This time it's very radical. It's very different from 2009. I'm scared. There's zero leadership. I don't know what's going on."
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This clip is probably from Tehran, parts of which appear to have erupted in chaos tonight. Definitely watch this video. Hear the joy in the upper-middle class young woman's voice as the young men attack the cops.
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Analysis from a Tehran social scientist: "This is the new generation that has taken the streets this time. The '90s generation! A generation who don't recognize any limits. A generation who has no candidate in the race!" (cont)
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Analysis from a Tehran social scientist: "There is no space for appeasement in the current demonstrations, no signal to Khatami, nor to Mousavi. The office closed to everyone, but what are these people looking for? There is no resemblance to events of 2009." (cont).
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Analysis from a Tehran social scientist: "Great anger and overthrowing the regime at any price? Do not let these demonstrations go the direction of the Arab Spring and Syria and Libya, which would be really terrible. We've already experienced that."
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