Experts debate whether protests can change Iran

Amid the continued popular protests throughout Iran, what will the future hold for the country’s terror-funding Shi’a regime?

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Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, told JNS that while the protests “initially began over economic grievances, they soon mushroomed across Iran, drawing on the wellspring of discontent with the revolution that has existed in that country since the regime’s inception.”

“Chants drifted to include attacks on both President [Hassan] Rouhani and Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei, as well as rebukes of Iran’s overall foreign and security policy,” he said. “These slogans signal the deep levels of dissatisfaction the population has with the regime.”

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