They're afraid of murdering too many protesters all at once. Eventually the protesters will come to understand how to work around this. They can't open their telecomm pipes, because the minute they do 3 million people will know how and where to gather, and the world will get to see thousands of videos showing horrific instances of state violence against its subjects. They have to open their telecomm pipes, because their economy cannot function without telecomm. They can't repress too much, because the cleric support base will tip against them. Rafsanjani is waiting to find out who'll keep his financial empire running. He's going to come to conclude the current leadership's promises cannot be trusted; the country is now being run by a Fascist Islamic Mafia.
And Iran's negotiations on their nuclear program? Suspended indefinitely due to lack of credibility; nobody will believe anything they say now. TICK, TOCK, MOTHERFUCKERS...
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Umm, has been for 30 years. And BTW, even if the protesters succeed, don't count on a tremendous improvement.
Although, at the rate O Duce is going I may still want to emigrate there.