Iran's troubled regime cracks down hard as Trump ratchets up pressure
Quoted in CNN,
There’s a lot of hollowing out, of course. There’s severe economic challenges, if not complete collapse. There’s a very broad protest coalition, of course, but it (the regime) is held together, and it’s held together by very cohesive and very coercive forces…
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Mitchell McCluskey, “Iran's troubled regime cracks down hard as Trump ratchets up pressure,” CNN, 11 January 2026 (quoting H.A. Hellyer), https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/11/middleeast/iran-regime-clings-to-power-protests-hnk-latam-intl.
McCluskey, M. (2026, January 11). Iran's troubled regime cracks down hard as Trump ratchets up pressure. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/11/middleeast/iran-regime-clings-to-power-protests-hnk-latam-intl
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