A recent report by International Policy Digest draws attention to a growing reality around Iran’s ongoing unrest: the surge of “pro-monarchy” content on social media is not always an organic reflection of public sentiment. According to the report’s technical and contextual framing, what appears as a spontaneous wave can function as a “designed campaign” aimed at splitting the opposition, blurring its message, and rebranding a broad democratic uprising as a nostalgic mobilization for the return of hereditary monarchy.
On Iran’s streets, a hard-earned political conclusion has been repeated for years in one blunt line: “A dictator is a dictator—whether Shah or mullah.” This is not an abstract debate about state models. It is a summary of lived experience from a society that has endured repression twice: once under the Shah’s security apparatus and once under the system
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