In recent weeks, as Iran’s supreme leader has unusually acknowledged that thousands of protesters were killed amid a nationwide crackdown, the Islamic Republic has appeared to turn inward once again, sealing off communications and retreating into repression.  For Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, now in his fourth decade of rule, this posture reflects a long-standing logic: survival through isolation, control and force. Yet the scale of unrest and the regime’s own admission this weekend of mass violence

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