Clearly Iran's leadership have never...

...heard the expression ( when you are in a hole, stop digging.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64097382

In spite of brutal suppression, these protests are not going away. The main difference between this latest 'uprising' and the 'Arab Dawn' is that, this time, many have lived through, seen and experienced the freedoms they are now being denied.
We enter, sadly, another new year where large parts of the World, and women, are suppressed and brutalised and even countries ( including UK) where freedoms and relative prosperity exist are seeing them being eroded through greed, corruption and sheer incompetence of leadership

We never learn.