IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, DECEMBER 13
The Iranian regime appointed key clerics responsible for indoctrinating a significant portion of the security forces, possibly to improve efforts to ideologically subordinate security officers.
Protest coordinators and organizations have planned more anti-regime demonstrations in the coming days.
At least eight protests occurred in five cities across five provinces on December 13.
Tehran Prosecutor General Ali Alghasi Mehr announced that 400 detained protesters were assigned prison sentences.
The LEC Intelligence Organization announced the arrest of an unspecified number of actors for targeting trucks.
The Parliamentary Judiciary and Legal Committee approved three articles of a bill that would establish a police force for children and adolescents.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-december-13
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, DECEMBER 14
The Iranian economy appears to be entering a period of potentially significant disruption.
UN member states voted to expel Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
At least one protest occurred.
Social media users circulated calls for countrywide strikes and protests on December 19, 20, and 21.
Iran-affiliated leadership from Lebanon and Iraq met in Baghdad.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-december-14