IRANIAN ACTIVISTS STRIVE TO BUILD AWARENESS OF PROTESTERS’ DEMANDS AND TEHRAN’S RESPONSE By INU Staff INU - On Thursday,   World Watch Monitor  featured an interview with the Iranian-born human rights activist Mansour Borji, now the advocacy director of the UK-based charity called article 18. The article added Borji’s voice to the ongoing assessments of the situation faced by the Iranian nation in the wake of mass protests that began on December 28. According to Borji, those protests demonstrated public opposition not only to Iran’s clerical regime as it exists today but also to the entire concept of political Islam. This account of popular sentiment is in keeping with the slogans that organizations like the National Council of Resistance of Iran have reported as coming out of those protests. These include calls for the resignation of both the “moderate” President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Protesters have also been heard to identify by name the r...