Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’

Something has shifted fundamentally,” said Burcu Ozcelik, senior research fellow for Middle East security at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), the London-based think tank. “The mood has changed domestically and there are cracks in the system we have never seen before. “It’s premature to say the regime will collapse but I do think some kind of change is inevitable.”