IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, DECEMBER 15
The IRGC is likely conducting an information operation to discredit some protester coordinators among demonstrators.
Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi discussed expanding regime censorship in a speech—comments which the regime later denied Vahidi made.
At least three protests took place in three cities across three provinces.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-december-15
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, DECEMBER 16
Protest organizations and coordinators are increasingly promoting consistent and sustainable acts of anti-regime defiance as the Mahsa Amini protest movement enters its fourth consecutive month.
The Iranian Parliament and the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council did not release an opinion on the mandatory veiling law or how the regime chooses to police that law on December 16.
At least eight protests took place in six cities across four provinces.
Prominent Sunni Cleric Moulana Abdol Hamid condemned the regime for sentencing arrested protesters to death in his weekly Friday sermon in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province.
A pro-Iran Iraqi official stated that former Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi would be arrested in connection with IRGC-Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis’ deaths.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-december-16