Why Iran’s uprising is doomed to fail

Published January 31, 2023 5:40am ET



The brutal killing of Mahsa Amini by Iran’s notorious morality police in September 2022 sparked protests all over the country. The scope and scale of these demonstrations prompted some pundits to call it a women-led revolution. A CNN contributor concluded that the clerical regime may be at a point of no return, and the current protests transcend Iran’s many social and ethnic divisions.

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