More than 830 executions, almost five per day, have taken place since Masoud Pezeshkian took office as the so-called ‘moderate’ president of Iran last August. The frenzy of executions, aimed at quelling rising dissent in the rebellious population, has had the opposite effect. Unbridled brutality, suppression, and intimidation have failed to extinguish the spark of revolution, which threatens to ignite the nation. Protests, which began at Tehran University in mid-February following the suspicious death of Amir Mohammad Khaleqi, a 19-year-old student, have spread nationwide to other universities and are spilling out onto the streets. Students hold the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – the regime’s Gestapo, and the thuggish Basij militia, responsible, chanting: “We fight, we die, we will take back Iran” and “Death to the dictator, either the colonial Shah or the reactionary mullahs.”

The Iranian currency has halved in value since Pezeshkian took office, causing soaring inflation and impoverishing the majority of Iranians. When the 1979 revolution led to the overthrow of the reviled Shah, the currency was valued at 74 rials, equal to US $. Today, it is 940,000 rials to the US $. Pensioners, teachers, nurses, doctors, office workers, laborers, and truck drivers are routinely seen joining the demonstrations, protesting about unpaid pensions, overdue wages, the broken economy, corruption, and oppression. The protests have turned overtly political, with chants of: “This year is a year of blood, Seyyed Ali [Supreme Leader Ayatollah........

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