The Iranian regime has “lost any legitimacy at home and abroad,” says the analyst




Speaking to FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen, Simon Mabon, professor of international politics and Middle Eastern studies at Lancaster University, says the latest Iranian unrest ‘seems qualitatively different in terms of the size of the protests, the breadth of groups involved in the protests and in terms of the sheer ferocity of the regime’s response’, adding that ‘this points to a regime that is in dire financial straits, a political and welfare state’.



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