ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN NEARS COLLAPSE: GOVERNMENT LOSES CONTROL OF PROTESTS; SHUTS OFF INTERNET, PHONE CALLS TO OUTSIDE
Crowds of thousands have marched across the country each night, chanting “death to the dictator”, a reference to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and for the return of the Pahlavi dynasty, 👀which ruled Iran before the 1979 revolution.
A 19-year-old student activist said on Friday: “We are marching in thousands tonight. I saw children on the shoulders of their parents, a grandmother chanting ‘Death to Khamenei’ while she’s decked up in a chador [black robe]. Do you realise how significant this is?”
