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With recent protests about plane crash subsiding I have to write a few lines, some may not like my conclusion, but that’s what I see as an observer since more than 10 yrs ago: number of people who attended these protests where hundreds not even 10s of thousands.
The social class of this week’s protestors were mostly upper middle class, university students. I have told a friend or 2 that the are from the same classes who attended 2009 post-election protests in large number. I call them political protesters. They usually live in Tehran.
These 👆protesters are totally different from those who participated in winter 2018 and November 2019 demos which were nationwide (small cities) or on the suburbs of big cities while Tehranis stayed away from them. I call them economic protesters.
Another point is: while you may see many of those economic protesters going to flood or quake stricken regions in volunteer groups along with Basiji or seminary students, you never track political protesters, celebrities, tv personalities helping affected locals.
It could explain why such protests are never taken serious by ordinary people (though security forces take them very serious!) and you may hear them chanting slogans against the IR, SL, IRGC, or else. #Iranpolitics
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