dinner jansa point went and put down the protests with extraordinary brutality. i think i'm on a probably saying to the regime that here but what price he knew he would need to give some leeway if his hold on power were to be preserved. i think this sort of awareness that iran had been through its own brush with potential regime instability in two thousand and nine with the most serious protests that had taken place since the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution cast a very long shadow and it was clear that. there was a consensus decision to move away from the kind of provocations that characterize the period and move toward it. a new rapprochement at least with the broader