The Iran Regime Is Not Going To Change

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Suzanne Maloney, The Atlantic: Iran’s Leaders Have a Problem They Can’t Fix

The downing of a plane showed citizens what’s wrong with the Iranian government, but the regime has no plans to change.

When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led

prayers at Tehran’s Grand Mosque for the first time in eight years on Friday, Iran’s supreme leader described the downing of Ukrainian Airlines Fight 752 by his military as a “bitter accident”—one that enemies abroad were exploiting as an excuse to discredit the Islamic Republic. But the real threat to the regime, which has spent decades trying to cement its rule, is the discontent of the Iranian public. Both the plane crash on January 8 and the cover-up that followed struck at the heart of the grievances that shape Iranians’ anger toward and alienation from their government. And if the demise of Flight 752 revealed the government’s malign disregard for its own citizens, its relentless suppression of the subsequent protests has only underscored its imperviousness to any meaningful accountability.

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WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction. Life for the ordinary Iranian is going to get worse.

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