Iran is repairing wounded sovereignty with brutality at an overwhelming cost to its citizens, writes Hossein Dabbagh I ran has often described its current crackdown as an attempt to restore “order”. That word “order” is doing too much work. What we are watching unfold is less crowd control and more a regime trying to repair a damaged claim to authority by making life incomprehensibly dangerous. Unrest began that with economic pain quickly snowballed into something larger: a public refusal to