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"Death to the Dictator": Tehran, Iran


Videos sent to Iran International show that on Thursday night, as protests continued, demonstrators gathered at Ghods Square in Tehran and chanted the slogan “Death to the dictator.” The idea that Iran could change course through a shift at the top—without the collapse of the structure itself, and with a pragmatic figure opening up to the world—rests on a false assumption about how power actually works in Tehran. That assumption has been reinforced by recent developments in Venezuela, where the United States forcibly removed Nicolás Maduro from power and now appears prepared to work with figures from within the same governing apparatus.

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