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Comment by machina_ex_deus

While I would be very happy to see the Iranian Islamic regime collapse, the current protests are pretty weak compared to the past.

The oil price protests of 2019 reached higher destruction within two days than the whole current protests combined. They actually temporarily lost control of cities.

They need something stronger to collapse their dictatorship. They probably need a real opposition leader. And more organized actions than sporadic protests. I don't see the current protests going anywhere.

I'm not sure why are the downvotes?

Truth is, getting crashed economically is almost always better protest motivation than women rights. Protests that threaten regimes are usually triggering desperate men. You're not getting regime change from hijab protests where economic desperation protests of bigger magnitudes failed.

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