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Expert: Iran Seeks Stability, Not Confrontation with Israel and the U.S.
(Ynet News) Lior Ben Ari - Danny Citrinowicz, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and a former head of the Iran desk in the IDF Intelligence Directorate, said in an interview: "The Iranian regime has a paramount interest right now in restoring stability...and to do that, it does not want to find itself in an external confrontation, neither with the United States nor with Israel." "In Iran, they understand from experience that more deaths do not necessarily bring calm. They are using many tools, such as slowing internet access without shutting it down completely. They arrest some protesters, but they are not 'mowing the lawn' with extraordinary repression like during the hijab protests, and certainly not like in 2009....The protests are challenging, but the regime has dealt with much more complex situations. They are not yet in survival mode."