November 14 - Isfahan, central #Iran
Retired steel workers rallying and demanding answers to their long raised issues and economic woes. #IranProtests #اعتراضات_سراسری
November 14 - Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
Retired Khuzestan steel workers and pensioners rallying and protesting officials' refusal to see to their long-raised demands regarding their wages and deteriorating living conditions. #IranProtests #اعتراضات_سراسری
November 14 - Tehran, #Iran
State bus line drivers rallying and demanding answers to their long-raised demands, and protesting economic grievances. #IranProtests #اعتراضات_سراسری
November 14 - Isfahan, central #Iran
Farmers protesting and demanding their share of water from the local Zayandeh-rud River. Regime officials have long rerouted the waters for their own purposes. #IranProtests #اعتراضات_سراسری
November 14 - Shiraz, Fars province, south-central #Iran
Employees of hospitals, medical centers, & medical schools are protesting their poor living conditions & regime officials' refusal to respond to their economic woes. #IranProtests #اعتراضات_سراسری
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November 3 - Karaj, west of Tehran, #Iran
Locals marking the 40th day of Hadith Najafi's murder by the regime's oppressive security forces chant "Death to the dictator!" and clash with the regime's security forces. #IranRevolution2022 #آزادی_آزادی_آزادی
November 3 - Karaj, west of Tehran, #Iran
Locals establish roadblocks to prevent the regime's oppressive security forces from disrupting their ceremony marking the 40th day of Hadith Najafi's murder by the regime. #IranRevolution2022 #آزادی_آزادی_آزادی
November 3 - Karaj, west of Tehran, #Iran
More footage of people marking the 40th day of Hadith Najafi's murder by the regime's oppressive security forces and chanting "Death to the dictator!" #IranRevolution2022 #آزادی_آزادی_آزادی
October 2 - Tehran, #Iran
Scenes from inside the Sharif University of Technology campus where security forces have opened fire on the students. #IranProtests2022 #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی
October 2 - Tehran, #Iran
More footage of Sharif University of Technology showing how security forces have surrounded the campus and blocked entrances. #IranProtests2022 #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی
In the past two weeks, optimism over the #Iran nuclear talks has fizzled. According to news reports and statements made by the parties involved, the key point of tension is the removal of the IRGC from the U.S. State Dept’s FTO list.
The terror designation of the IRGC, instated by the Trump administration in 2019, is not related to the regime’s nuclear program, which makes it a tough sell as part of any agreement reached in Vienna.
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Why is the regime predicating any deal on the removal of the IRGC from the terror list?
The IRGC has a disproportionate share of all levers of power in Iran, including the economy, domestic politics, and foreign policy.
The Iranian regime’s Majlis recently approved the government’s plan to remove the “42,000-rial dollar” (preferential currency). Supposedly aimed to fight corruption, the new plan will cause a rise in prices and exacerbate corruption. #Iran
In 2018, the regime pegged the official exchange rate of the rial at 42,000 against the US dollar, while the free-market rate, adjusted by supply-and-demand dynamics, continued to plunge and near the 300,000 mark.
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The regime’s declared policy was to prevent the fluctuation of the prices of basic goods and medicine. But in effect, the new policy created a black market run by regime-backed entities, which obtained dollars and made huge profits by selling them at the free-market rate.
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March 8 - Shiraz, south-central #Iran
Retired communications workers protesting in different cities and provinces seeking answers to their long-raised demands. #IranProtests #اعتراضات_سراسری
November 26 - Isfahan, central #Iran
Initial reports early Friday morning local time indicate anti-riot police viciously attacking protesting locals at the city's famous Pole Khaju bridge. #IranProtests #اعتراضات_سراسری
November 26 - Isfahan, central #Iran
Regime officials are dispatching oppressive anti-riot units to the dried river bed of Zayandehrud River to scatter and disrupt any possible gathering. #IranProtests #اعتراضات_سراسری
November 26 - Isfahan, central #Iran
Regime officials are dispatching oppressive Revolutionary Guards, anti-riot units, and IRGC Basij units to the dried river bed of Zayandehrud River to prevent today's gathering. #IranProtests #اعتراضات_سراسری