With Strongholds Joining Protests, Iran's Leaders Seem Nervous

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% :Read More: The Protests in Iran Have Shaken the Islamic Republic to Its Core"The solidarity beyond ethnic lines still holds, largely," says Sepehri Far of Human Rights Watch.
46% : In putting down previous protests, authorities played successfully on Iranians' sense of nationalism, nursing latent fears that unrest might serve as a cover for separatist movements among the country's ethnic Kurdish, Baluchi, and Arab minorities.
45% : The IRIB, or Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, is the regime's main propaganda arm, and directly controlled by Khamenei.
41% : The authorities have concentrated forces on the Kurdish region -- firing artillery across the border into opposition camps in Kurdish territory inside Iraq, and, on Monday night, launching a brutal sweep of the streets in Kurdish cities inside Iran.
36% : Protesters in Tehran claimed the victims as martyrs.
34% : A motorcycle on fire in Iran's capital Tehran on Oct. 8, 2022, amid the biggest wave of social unrest in almost three yearsEvidence is accumulating that protests in Iran, now in their fourth week, may be seriously undermining the regime.
34% : She was an ethnic Kurd who had been visiting Tehran when she was abducted and allegedly beaten for "inappropriate hijab," or religious dress.

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