ISW: ‘Anti-regime protests have flared up in Iran’

“Anti-regime protests have flared up in Iran in response to increased state executions, demonstrating that many protesters remain undeterred from further protest despite the brutal regime crackdown during the Mahsa Amini movement,” the Institute for the Study of War said, Report informs.

The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute with support from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) recorded ten anti-regime protests on May 19—the highest number of anti-regime protests in a single day since March 13:

“Iranian authorities executed three individuals who participated in the Mahsa Amini protest movement on May 19 and has significantly increased the pace of state executions in recent weeks. These executions reinvigorated anti-regime sentiments, as CTP previously forecasted.”