Thursday, February 1, 2018

Iran’s latest crackdown on dissent is fueled by UN silence over past crimes


Among analysts and commentators who have been paying attention to the state of affairs in the Islamic Republic of Iran, there is widespread agreement that the fallout from recent protests, which spread to as many as 140 cities across the country, has only just begun.
The ongoing fallout takes two equally important forms. In the first place, the repression of those protests and the regime’s failure to address their economic, social and political demands means that public grievances are continuing to simmer and will certainly bubble to the surface again, perhaps with even
http://thehill.com/opinion/international/371676-irans-latest-crackdown-on-dissent-is-fueled-by-un-silence-over-past

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