The images that trickled out of Iran showed a country gripped by chaos: tens if not hundreds of thousands of protesters; body bags laid outside morgues; gunfire ringing in the streets.
The unrest appeared last week to have such momentum that the Islamic republic’s foes speculated that the regime was near collapse and its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was plotting an Assad-style escape.
But just days later, Iranians reached over sputtering phone lines and secret satellite internet connections, along with international observers, say the protests appear to have faded.
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