Achievements of the Iran Protests So Far

NCRI - After at least 50 deaths and over 4,000 arrests, the Iranian Regime has yet again declared the nationwide anti-regime protests to be over and done with. That is simply untrue.

Many citizen-journalists have risked violence from the Regime in order to post photos and footage about ongoing protests, and although the protests don’t appear to be growing in numbers or frequency at the current time, that doesn’t mean that this is over. Not by a long shot.

The protests have already done a great deal to dispel many myths about the Regime and the people of Iran that are held in the West. Let’s run through a few of them.

1) The Iranian People are not rallying behind the Regime in response to the US’s tough rhetoric.

Some media outlets falsely reported that the Iranian people are supporting the Regime as Trump gets tougher on the mullahs, but the ordinary Iranians detest the corrupt and repressive regime.

Sohrab Ahmari wrote: “The average Iranian doesn’t wake up in the morning cursing Donald Trump for trying to undo the nuclear deal. More likely, he curses the fact that he can’t even afford eggs to feed his children, and there are more proximate actors whom he blames for that: namely, the mullahs.”

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