Deepika Saraswat is Associate Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses and the author of Between Survival and Status: The Counter-Hegemonic Geopolitics of Iran
Iran’s youth have been reeling under an economy marred by decades of US sanctions, corruption and the pandemic. The attempts to tighten the noose on social freedoms and the state’s heavy-handedness have therefore invited an almost instant and massive pushback