Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom movement in 2022 and the Gaza solidarity movement mobilised thousands across continents. The Iranian state met the first stirrings of protest with repression and surveillance. Compare Iran and Palestine with Nepal and Bangladesh—where uprisings actually succeeded—and a pattern emerges: resistance movements prevail not when solidarity expands but when state power fragments. The Iranian state responded with systematic violence. Policing, legal coercion, and strategic alliances combined to contain solidarity movements while state power remained domestically unified and internationally protected.

Source: The Hindu January 17, 2026 08:16 UTC