IRAN: Will protests spark regime change?
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January 4, 2026 1:00 AM
Men and women across Iran are risking their lives to protest the Islamic Republic’s theocracy. 38 years of Islamist terror and torture have produced a society that cannot even provide its people with enough food.
Under the Shah’s White Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, Iran became only the second Islamic society on Earth to modernize sufficiently to produce a middle class. Like Turkey before Erdogan, Iranians were shifting beyond Koranic medievalism into a successfully secularizing modernity.
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