Parallel to this effort, President Masoud Pezeshkian introduced a “neighborhood-based management” strategy, effectively mobilizing the Basij paramilitary force to tighten internal control. While he framed it as a way to boost “community resilience” its real goal appears to be reinforcing state security in anticipation of social unrest.

In late April, the Ministry of Education signed an agreement with security forces to formalize the deployment of law enforcement officers in schools.

Around the same time, the judiciary announced that nearly 90,000 people — many of them students — had been arrested during the 2022 protests.

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