Selected updates on Iran’s crackdown against human rights lawyers, dissidents, journalists, and protesters from Is Iran’s Fist Still Clenched. A check-in in on extended hands, carrots and sticks, reset buttons, walls of fear, and miscellaneous other hackneyed smart power metaphors in Central Asia and beyond.
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Against Human Rights Lawyers, Having Just Sentenced Another One
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Against Lawyers Who Defended Dissidents, Jailing Them For Doing Their Jobs
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Against Opposition Leaders With Charmingly-Titled “Hatred Rallies”
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… With Vows To Crush Pro-Egypt March Of “Corpses”
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Against The Opposition Leaders They Just Preemptively Arrested Before Pro-Egypt Rally
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Against Karroubi’s Family
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Against Opposition Leaders, Accusing Them Of Treason
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Against – And Attacking – The Funeral Mourners Of Murdered Students
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… With Promises To “Crush” Pro-Egypt Protesters Gov’t Claims To Support
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Against – And Detaining – Opposition Leaders’ Children
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… With A New Prosecutor’s Office And Special Court Exclusively Targeting Journalists, Artists
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