I have no idea how many Iranians have been involved in the protests, but it seems like they're getting past the 3.5% number as well..

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steve-atx-7600 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Peaceful protests do not work when the government that you are opposing shoots protesters in the street and/or jails & tortures them. Didn’t work so well in Syria either. Only the government has guns in Iran and they’d rather rule over a hellish cesspool of their own countrymen starving and drying than lose power.

	▲	eli_gottlieb 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And quite relevantly to the analogy, in Iran, the regime controls most of the economic links to the outside world, including the ability to convert the rial to dollars or euros.