Iran International, an opposition outlet, reported Monday (local time) that Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, or SNSC, was recently convened on an emergency basis over concerns that the mass protests that swept the country from late last year into early this year could reemerge.
The report said the meeting followed an intelligence assessment that conditions for protests are in place, citing rising prices, worsening unemployment and damage to key industries from the war with the United States and Israel.
It also cited analysis that war-related losses in the petrochemical and steel sectors could directly trigger renewed unrest.
An anonymous source described as familiar with the meeting said the SNSC views renewed protests not as a matter of “possibility” but of timing.
Some officials, the outlet said, have also warned that labor groups inside and outside Iran are urging large demonstrations around International Workers’ Day on May 1, raising the prospect that an uprising could begin sooner than expected.
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