A speech by a high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Guard recently caused speculation in Iran. Religious leader Khamenei has also dismissed Tehran's former police chief and replaced him with someone even more brutal, raising fears of further escalation. By Ali Sadrzadeh
The various parts if the repressive machine didn t know what do. In the city of Sari, for example, they arrested 786 people in one day before they realized they had nowhere to keep them. Unlike supporters of the regime mostly of older generations, who
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