For decades, the regime has attempted to convince Iranian society that organized resistance is either dead, irrelevant, foreign-controlled, or incapable of surviving. The Real Source of Anxiety: The Resistance Inside IranThe most revealing section of the Hawza News article concerns the “Resistance Units.” Its deeper concern is that an organized resistance network can connect political opposition with social unrest and transform spontaneous anger into sustained resistance. They are the concerns of a regime that sees the possibility of organized resistance converging with widespread social discontent. Every attempt to discredit the Resistance before a younger generation demonstrates fear that the regime’s narrative is losing its effectiveness.