Iranians protest the regime

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I have not seen sustained coverage of the Iranian protests that began when Iranian "morality police" arrested and killed a woman. (I read the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the UK Guardian regularly). Just noticed that ISW, the reliable daily update of the war in Ukraine, carries a daily update of Iran. Seems to be researched by a group at the American Enterprise Institute, and carried by ISW.

Does anyone have other sources? What do they report?

Here is today: https://www.understandingwar.org/bac...ate-october-17

A sample from ISW:

Anti-regime protests occurred in at least 10 cities in 9 provinces on October 17. CTP assesses with moderate or high confidence that protests occurred in the following locations:

• Ardabil, Ardabil Province (At least 50 medical students protesting at a hospital; plainclothed regime forces beat and arrested protesters)[14]
• Bushehr, Bushehr Province (Dozens of Bushehr Persian Gulf University students chanting “students, workers, unity, strikes”)[15]
• Shahr-e Kord, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province (100-200 Islamic Azad University students chanting “freedom, freedom”)[16]
• Najafabad, Esfahan Province (100-200 Azad University of Najafabad students chanting “tank cannon explodes, mullahs must get lost”)[17]
• Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province (Several hundred protesters in Bandar Abbas streets)[18]
• Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province (100-200 high school students protesting in Sanandaj streets; undetermined number of protesters lighting fires in Sanandaj streets)[19]
• Babol, Mazandaran Province (Several hundred University of Mazandaran students protesting on campus)[20]
• Tehran, Tehran Province (Students protesting from Tehran Medical Sciences University and Shahid Beheshti University; Dozens of protesters in Tehran streets and near Evin prison)[21]

CTP assesses with low confidence that protests occurred in the following locations:

• Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province (Undetermined number of high school students protesting inside a school)[22]
• Esfahan, Esfahan Province (Undetermined number of college students protesting possibly on campus; protesters burning down Fuladshahr seminary with Molotov cocktails)[23]
• NB: CTP has started to offer brief characterizations of major protest activities, including chants when audible and noteworthy, rough estimates of crowd size based on available videos, regime security force posture and activities, and other significant events. Actual crowd sizes may be larger, even considerably larger, depending on how much video evidence emerges and whether videos cover all protest activities in a given location or only some.