Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered a speech on the 29th anniversary of the death of his predecessor and founder of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini. The occasion represents one of several annual opportunities for the clerical regime to reaffirm its hard-line identity and shore up resistance to those pressures, particularly by Iranians for a democratic future. Accordingly, Khamenei's speech prominently featured warnings about the ongoing efforts by the nation's organized resistance movement to expand upon the mass uprising that took place at the end of last year and the beginning of this year.
This message has been repeated in various localities, through demonstrations that feature various different groups and demographics, throughout the several months since the mass uprising was violently suppressed. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) determined that approximately 50 protesters were shot dead in January, and that 8,000 were arrested. But NCRI's president-elect, Maryam Rajavi, also predicted "a year full of uprisings," and the ongoing protests and labor demonstrations seem to be proving her correct.
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