Current Analysis A “Blue” Generation and Protests in Iran The protests reveal a widespread disaffection with all existing political factions. New slogans calling for the “death” of “the dictator” and for a “referendum” alternated with those in favor of the Pahlavi monarchist regime that ruled Iran before the 1979 revolution. This public enunciation of an a Aghil Daghagheleh • 9 min read