U.S.-Turkish relations were already on the rocks because of Turkey's wholesale crackdown on oppositionists after the failed coup of July 15.
Since the end of DUSHANBE 00000173 002 OF 005 the war, Rahmon gradually has reneged on this deal and forced nearly all oppositionists out of government -- some are in prison, some left the country, and others died mysteriously.
Russia is "increasingly putting more pressure on oppositionists in Aleppo, indiscriminately bombing women, children, hospitals, this sort of thing," Clapper said.
And there is the challenge of getting the Shia oppositionists to participate in the next election.
When a woman says she expects oppositionists to be young men with wild hair, the narrator replies, "What do you want, the regime's gotten old and so have we".
In practice, this would mean taking millions of notes out of circulation, following a quiet campaign by oppositionists to mark them with anti-regime slogans.Funereal opportunitiesMore embarrassing still for a regime that describes itself as Islamic is the government's treatment of dissident clerics, including some prominent ayatollahs.
Mr. Sinyakov's work often focused on Russia's oppositionists — from the still-free members of the punk performers Pussy Riot to the bare-chested guerrilla protesters known as Femen, the retrial of the tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky in 2010 to the protests against election fraud and Mr. Putin's return as president in 2012.
However, after the revolution, the Islamic Republic's regime executed so many students and political oppositionists every day that no one could name a particular day for a particular occasion.
I believe the event that led to the violence took place on Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti), while oppositionists were delivering their speeches.
In 2005 and 2006, the country was shocked by the murders, one not long after the other, of two outspoken oppositionists.
