Iran Activists’ Changing Language Shows Protests’ Grim New Turn

  • Tweets show how a state crackdown has crushed mass protests
  • Protesters have shifted energies to acts of civil disobedience
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Activists monitoring Iran’s protests are increasingly covering executions and arrests rather than street demonstrations, a sign of how momentum in the unrest has shifted to the state and its crackdown.