What happens when a society reaches a point at which its own people no longer fear their rulers? In Iran today, the answer is not some abstract political theory but a terrible continuing human experience: widespread, systematic repression by the organs of the state against the citizens they claim to serve.
The Islamic Republic’s apparatus of control, in particular the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and associated security forces, has become the embodiment of a brutal logic in which dissent is met not with disagreement, but with lethal force, mass arrest, and structural intimidation.
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