November 25, 5:00 pm ET
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Protests continued however didn’t surge throughout Iran on November 24 and 25 regardless of requires protests. Protest coordinators and organizations referred to as for countrywide demonstrations from November 24-26 in solidarity with the protesters in Kurdistan Province.[i] Some protest organizations requested that protesters congregate on the principle streets in every metropolis, presumably to exhibit giant crowd sizes. It’s unclear why these calls didn’t materialize. Safety forces could have efficiently preempted the deliberate protests, concentrating safety personnel alongside the principle streets and thereby deterring protesters, although CTP can’t corroborate this speculation at the moment. CTP beforehand argued that the character of the deliberate protests elevated the chance to protesters as a result of the advance discover gave the regime time to organize and a single set of areas at which to pay attention safety personnel.[ii] The scattered nature of the protests all through most of this wave has strained safety forces’ restricted bandwidth.
The regime’s protest crackdown and abuse of arrested demonstrators will alienate giant swaths of the inhabitants and entrench anti-regime sentiment all through Iran for many years. US-based NGO Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) estimated on November 25 that the regime has arrested over 18,000 protesters to date.[iii] HRAI estimated that 110 of those arrested protesters are youngsters and youngsters. These numbers, if true, are considerably better than these from earlier main protest waves in Iran. The regime arrested round 4,000 protesters through the 2009 Inexperienced Motion and round 8,000 through the 2019 Bloody Aban protests.[iv] CNN printed a report on November 21 detailing the horrific acts of sexual assault and violence the regime is committing towards arrested protesters.[v] A younger Iranian protester informed NPR on November 23 that she would like that the regime killed her slightly than arresting her.[vi] These horrible abuses will regularly gas anger and resentment towards this regime, underscoring the long-term problem the Islamic Republic is creating for itself by the brutality it’s utilizing to oppress these protesters.
Key Takeaways
- Protests continued however didn’t surge throughout Iran regardless of requires protests.
- The regime’s protest crackdown and abuse of arrested demonstrators will alienate giant swaths of the inhabitants and entrench anti-regime sentiment all through Iran for a very long time.
- Residents in Mazandaran Province despatched medical provides to protesters in Kurdistan Province, in response to Radio Farda.
- Distinguished Sunni cleric Moulana Abdol Hamid continued to encourage protests all through Sistan and Baluchistan Province.
- Hacker group Black Reward defaced the web site of IRGC-affiliated Fars News Company.
- The IRGC Floor Forces has deployed armored and particular forces models to unspecified areas in northwestern and western Iran, more likely to crack down on protesters and deter additional demonstrations.
- US-based NGO Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) estimated that the regime has arrested over 18,000 protesters to date.
Anti-Regime Protests
Not less than 16 protests occurred in 9 cities throughout eight provinces on November 24 and not less than 10 protests occurred in 9 cities throughout 4 provinces on November 25. CTP assesses with excessive to reasonable confidence that protests occurred within the following areas on November 24:
Be aware: CTP defines small protests as fewer than 100 people, medium protests as between 100 and 1,000, and protests as over one thousand.
Karaj, Alborz Province[vii]
- Crowd Dimension: Small
- Protester Exercise: Fireplace set in road
Esfahan Metropolis, Esfahan Province[viii]
- Crowd Dimension: Small
- Regime Repression: Safety forces fired at protesters
- Protester Exercise: Fireplace set in road
Ghazvin Metropolis, Ghazvin Province[ix]
- Crowd Dimension: Small
- Demographic: Staff
Hamedan Metropolis, Hamedan Province[x]
Mahidast, Kermanshah Province[xi]
- Crowd Dimension: Small to medium
- Protest Kind: Seven-day commemoration ceremony for killed protester Farhad Khosravi
Kamiyaran, Kurdistan Province[xii]
- Crowd Dimension: Medium
- Protest Kind: Commemoration ceremony for killed protester Fuad Mohammadi
Jakigour, Sistan and Baluchistan Province[xiii]
- Crowd Dimension: Small
- Notes: Protesters blocked highway
Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province[xiv]
- Crowd Dimension: Small
- Protester Exercise: Fireplace set in road
Tehran Metropolis, Tehran Province[xv]
- Crowd Dimension: Small
- Protest Kind: Seven-day commemoration ceremony for killed protester Hamid Reza Rouhi
Tehran Metropolis, Tehran Province[xvi]
- Crowd Dimension: Small to medium
- Notes: These could also be two completely different protests.
Tehran Metropolis, Tehran Province[xvii]
- Crowd Dimension: Small
- Protester Exercise: Fireplace set in road
Tehran Metropolis, Tehran Province[xviii]
Tehran Metropolis, Tehran Province[xix]
Tehran Metropolis, Tehran Province[xx]
Tehran Metropolis, Tehran Province[xxi]
CTP assesses with excessive to reasonable confidence that protests occurred within the following areas on November 25:
Karaj, Alborz Province[xxii]
- Crowd Dimension: Small to medium
Esfahan Metropolis, Esfahan Province[xxiii]
Chabahar, Sistan and Baluchistan Province[xxiv]
Iranshahr, Sistan and Baluchistan Province[xxv]
- Crowd Dimension: Small to Medium
Khash, Sistan and Baluchistan Province[xxvi]
- Crowd Dimension: Medium
- Regime Repression: Safety forces fired at protesters
Nouk Abad, Sistan and Baluchistan Province[xxvii]
- Crowd Dimension: Small
- Regime Repression: Safety forces fired at protesters
Saravan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province[xxviii]
Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province[xxix]
- Crowd Dimension: Massive
- Regime Repression: Safety forces fired at protesters
- Protester Exercise: Protesters marched down road, blocked roads
- Notes: The placement and timing of accessible footage means that protests prolonged into the night, though at a diminished scale. Protesters set fireplace on a metropolis road in night protests.
Tehran Metropolis, Tehran Province[xxx]
- Crowd Dimension: Medium (day) to small (night)
- Notes: The placement and timing of accessible footage means that protests prolonged into the night, though at a diminished scale.
Tehran Metropolis, Tehran Province[xxxi]
Residents in Mazandaran Province despatched medical provides to protesters in Kurdistan Province on November 24, in response to Radio Farda.[xxxii] This help displays how not less than some protesters are aiding and certain cooperating with each other all through the nation to withstand the regime crackdown. Protesters have established a casual medical care community for injured demonstrators in latest weeks, as CTP beforehand reported.[xxxiii] These sorts of interactions may present a basis for better cooperation amongst protesters throughout Iran.
IRGC Commander Main Common Hossein Salami threatened the West, Israel, and Saudi Arabia on November 24 for his or her alleged roles in stoking protests.[xxxiv]
IRGC Intelligence Group Deputy Chief Brigadier Common Mehdi Sayyari accused the US of leveraging well-liked financial frustrations to stoke protests on November 24.[xxxv] Regime officers continuously accuse the US of utilizing financial and psychological means to incite unrest. Rising regime consideration on how financial shortcomings facilitate protests may place better inner strain on President Ebrahim Raisi and his administration to enhance the economic system. The Raisi administration can’t implement the mandatory reform to meaningfully enhance the economic system, nevertheless, attributable to structural flaws and the IRGC’s monopoly in varied sectors.
Reformist Zahra Rahnavard printed a press release on November 24 criticizing the regime crackdown.[xxxvi] Rahnavard demanded that the regime “both kill me or give up to the desire of the individuals.” Rahnavard is married to reformist chief Mir Hossein Mousavi, who beforehand criticized the crackdown and expressed help for the protesters on October 1.[xxxvii]
Distinguished Sunni cleric Moulana Abdol Hamid continued to encourage protests all through Sistan and Baluchistan Province on November 25.[xxxviii] Abdol Hamid reiterated his criticisms of the regime crackdown throughout his weekly Friday sermon. He additionally expressed solidarity with Kurdish protesters in northwestern and western Iran, towards whom the regime has deployed the IRGC Floor Forces. Protests occurred in not less than six cities in Sistan and Baluchistan Province on November 25. Abdol Hamid’s anti-regime message may more and more resonate with Sunnis and different protesters in northwestern and western Iran, as CTP beforehand assessed.[xxxix]
Hacker group Black Reward defaced the web site of IRGC-affiliated Fars News Company on November 25.[xl] The group claimed to have recovered inner information, paperwork, and information from Fars News Company. Black Reward beforehand hacked the Atomic Vitality Group of Iran and printed 50 gigabytes of paperwork associated to the Iranian nuclear program on October 22, as CTP beforehand reported.[xli]
The IRGC Floor Forces has deployed armored and particular forces models to unspecified areas in northwestern and western Iran, more likely to crack down on protesters and deter additional demonstrations. IRGC Floor Forces Commander Brigadier Common Mohammad Pak Pour introduced these reinforcements on November 25.[xlii] He acknowledged that these models will struggle separatist militants. Social media reporting from West Azerbaijan Province has corroborated Pak Pour’s declare. Social media accounts reported the IRGC shifting armor from Oroumiyeh to Oshnaviyeh on November 24 and to Piranshahr on November 25.[xliii] These deployments could also be from the IRGC Floor Forces’ 2nd Imam Zaman Mechanized Brigade close to Shabestar, East Azerbaijan Province, 3rd Hamzeh Seyyed ol Shohada Special Forces Division close to Oroumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, and/or 31st Ashoura Mechanized Division in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province.[xliv] Seven tanks are seen within the movies posted.
Axis of Resistance and Regional Developments
The Iraqi central authorities and Kurdistan Regional Authorities (KRG) continued making an attempt to fulfill Iranian calls for for the disarmament and elimination of Kurdish militant teams in Iraqi Kurdistan on November 24. Iraqi central authorities and KRG officers mentioned deploying joint Iraqi Army and KRG Peshmerga brigades to the Iraqi borders with Iran and Turkey.[xlv] International Affairs Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian indicated on November 23 that the Baghdad dedicated to assembly Iranian calls for, as CTP beforehand reported.[xlvi]
Iranian-backed militias and Syrian regime forces carried out a joint train close to the al Tanf Garrison, which homes US troops, on November 23, more likely to threaten American service members.[xlvii]
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