Despite outrage over the post-electoral crackdown, this faction has escalated its offensive against dissent even as it consolidates its hold over Iran's politics and economy.On August 24th state television broadcast the fourth show trial of prominent reformists in as many weeks.
Violence continues to rage across the country's diverse borderlands, where the army has escalated an offensive against armed ethnic groups that refused to sign a nationwide peace accord in October.
Fighting has escalated in recent weeks ahead of what many believe is a planned government offensive to retake the area.
In large swathes of the country, the battle against the Islamist insurgency has escalated almost to the point of civil war, with the Pakistani army having launched large-scale offensives against the local offshoot of the militant fundamentalist Taliban movement.
Malnutrition has escalated.
But the problem has escalated.
The feud has escalated in recent months.
Acrimony has escalated in recent weeks.
Since then, tension has escalated.
The war has escalated in recent weeks.
