Iran's military elites are splitting due to massive protests, experts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) say.

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Some Iranian military leaders oppose the brutal measures of the current government in relation to the protesters and refuse to participate in the suppression of protests. In the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps they are criticized as traitors.

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Analysts report that they are high-ranking officers "

Recall, according to human rights activists, at least 469 protesters, including 64 minors, have died since the beginning of mass protests in Iran.. More than 18 thousand people were detained by security forces.

In the fall, the number of deaths was almost half that. That's how it all started.

The protests sparked by the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of the so-called morality police demanding strict obligatory hijab rules..

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The demonstrations turned into a popular uprising, becoming one of the challenges to the clerical leadership since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.. Then, we recall, the protests led to the fall of the monarchy, the expulsion of the Shah and the establishment of a republic.

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