Das iranische Regime ist unhaltbar

After two weeks of anti-government demonstrations in all of Iran’s 31 provinces, more than 500 people have reportedly been killed, and thousands more have been detained. “The Iranian regime has faced and brutally repressed repeated rounds of popular uprisings since 2009,” Ali Vaez, the director of the Iran project at the International Crisis Group, posted on X. “Never has it struggled with the kind of perfect storm it’s sailed itself into.”

“Iranians have plenty of reasons to feel angry, betrayed, vulnerable, or insecure,” Robin Wright writes. In the last two decades, several major protests over economic and political issues have erupted. The current protests broke out on December 28th, after merchants in Tehran’s lofty Grand Bazaar shuttered their shops as the value of the rial, the national currency, went into free fall. Wright reports on how, almost half a century later, the theocracy that toppled the Shah is struggling to survive: [https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/irans-regime-is-unsustainable](https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/irans-regime-is-unsustainable)

Tbh, yes.