What makes Iran’s November uprising different from previous protests?
\n\u2022\tARTICLES
\n\u2022\t12\/18\/2019
\n\u2022\tAuthor:Farid Mahoutchi<\/p>\n
Iran protests in November 2019 (File photo)
\nAnalysis by PMOI\/MEK
\nIran, December 18, 2019\u2014Many analysts discuss Iran\u2019s November protests, which erupted after the recent gas price hike. Many questions are on the table: How much was it predictable that Iran\u2019s society triggers such an uprising? How long would it take for the Iranian people to reach this point? Is there any background or was it just a single incident that suddenly flashed? What are the differences between the November 2019 uprising and previous uprisings? What has changed in Iran\u2019s society? What has changed in the Iranian regime\u2019s rule?
\nSo, the main question is, what has changed in Iran\u2019s political and social structure?<\/p>\n
Two different points of view
\nOne can claim that the November uprisings were the same as previous uprisings that dealt blows to the regime and caused some challenges for the regime. But in the end, the regime saved its dictatorship and managed to quell the uprising by resorting to brutal, vicious and fatal suppression.
\nBut a closer look shows that Iran\u2019s future makers, the youth who have been subjected to suppression and terror, took part in the uprising in an organized manner. This force of change in Iran had gone beyond previous levels of protests and uprisings and reached a turning point. The result was deadly strategic blows to the entire regime. Those deadly blows even made the Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei and its president Hassan Rouhani to explicitly support the oppression of protesters and put aside the show of rivalry between so-called reformists and hardliners to save the regime from collapse.
\nBoth Khamenei and Rouhani called protesters thugs and praised Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Basij forces for \u201ctheir services\u201d in killing innocent protesters.
\nAll the regime\u2019s authorities are now unanimously saying that November uprising was \u201cdifferent from previous ones.\u201d<\/p>\n
The background of the uprising
\nWhat are Iran\u2019s society features during the past 38 years?
\n1- Unlike democratic countries, the mullahs have not left even one party or organization in Iran that could really pursue the political and social demands of any strata.
\n2- The regime has not left any independent syndicate or union that follows the economic demands of workers, employees, farmers, etc.
\n3- The regime has conducted such suppression in Iran that any freedom-loving person who wants to step forward for establishing freedom and democracy must flee the country. Moreover, the regime would confiscate the properties of those freedom lovers, harass or arrest their families, or even abduct or assassinate them abroad. Hundreds of thousands of political prisoners in Iran, the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, and hundreds of Iranian dissidents assessed abroad are a testament to this fact.
\n4- The price of political criticism or disagreement with the rule of mullahs is nothing less than being denied your own basic rights in the society, your future, your education and the opportunity for enjoying a proper job.
\nIn such a country under the rule of mullahs, it has been impossible for the people to pursue their political, social and economic demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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