Protesters continue to defy Iran's regime as the country nears a turning point.
The mass anti-government protests that have been shaking Iran for nine weeks are like no other uprisings the ruling regime has seen before.
"The leaders of 2009 protests—Moussavi and Kahroubi—didn't want to challenge the entire regime, those protests were more 'controlled,' there were fewer slogans against the Islamic Republic and the supreme leader," Yassamine Mather, a Middle East specialist at the University of Oxford, told"Current protests are more radical, they challenge the entire state and the supreme leader—Khamenei—, so they are less predictable, there's no single leader to ask them to tone...
"Iranians have patiently given the Islamic Republic countless opportunities to reform itself, yet the regime never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity," Alvandi, said. Vakil disagrees, saying that it's unlikely that the Iranian government will be overthrown."The protests have not yet halted Iran's economy, we have not seen widespread strikes; we have not seen severe division within the political establishment, and we have not seen mass political mobilization in Iran in the way that we have seen in 2009," she said.
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