In the midst of a wave of anti-government unrest in Iran following the death of a young woman in police custody, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi planned to make a television address to the nation on Wednesday.Social media videos showed Iranians continuing with protests, frequently calling for the over four decades of rule by the clerical establishment, despite an increasing death toll and crackdown by security forces.
A senior Iranian official told Reuters that a collapse of the Islamic Republic still seems unlikely in the near future because its leaders are determined not to display weakness because they believe doing so would have sealed the demise of the US-backed Shah in 1979.
