

A second wave of popular anger is building in Iran
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A new wave of popular anger is rising in Iran, as people enraged by last month’s mass killings of protesters vent their antipathy for the regime despite the risks of a continuing crackdown. Mourning families are shouting antiregime slogans at funerals and memorials.
Students are refusing to sing patriotic songs at school. Medical workers are publicly condemning the arrests of colleagues who treated people injured in the protests. And groups of local activists are openly calling for the fall of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The shows of defiance—sometimes loud and risky, other times quiet and personal—come as Iranians reckon with the full extent of January’s violence and the government that ordered it. And they are cropping up even as the regime has carried out waves of arrests targeting protesters and their sympathizers, from relatives to medical workers to civil-rights activists. “People are full of fear but also resentment," a woman from the city of Kermanshah said via text message.
“We’re all staring at the sky, hoping Trump will bomb us, just to destroy Khamenei and his regime. We’re willing to die one by one, but we don’t want our children to suffer our pain and torture." The simmering dissent comes as President Trump is building up U.S. forces off Iran’s coast for possible military action against the regime after warning it not to kill protesters.
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