Since the start of the American-Israeli war against Tehran, the strengthening of the influence of the Revolutionary Guards has been widely commented on. This is a fact, but the picture would be incomplete if we did not take into account another important transformation, which is occurring in public space.
Since the start of the conflict, the Islamic Republic has actively mobilized its supporters, starting with the Basij and the Revolutionary Guard networks, whose presence is visible in the streets of Tehran and other major cities. They gather in groups, sometimes small, and move around chanting religious and anti-American slogans, and reciting verses from the Koran.
In large cities, these groups occupy squares, major thoroughfares and residential neighborhoods. This is an opportunity for the Revolutionary Guards to display missiles presented as being ready for launch, around which demonstrators come to wave flags, or even chant a collective prayer.
Streets deserted by “ordinary” Iranians
These are demonstrations of force, provocations, but which are also revealing of a concrete evolution on the ground. The Basijs and the police have, in fact, set up posts in the big cities
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Founded in 1970 with the aim of “stimulate debate on essential questions of American foreign policy†, Foreign Policy was a university journal for a long time before becoming a bimonthly in 2000. Its ambition today: to be the first “magazine on politics, economics and international ideas†. Managed since November 2020 by Ravi Agrawal, the title belongs to the Graham Holdings Company which also owns the site Slate. Foreign Policy launched several foreign editions in the early 2000s, in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America and in 2009, completely transformed its website. ForeignPolicy.com aims to be the first online daily covering questions of foreign policy and national security. In addition to the investigations and journalistic reports, there are numerous contributions from experts in international relations, with very varied political orientations.
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