Dude they have been protesting for 43 years. The past while alone they had mass protests and mass killings of civilians in response in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022.

This is really hard to "rise up" when the regime usually shuts off the internet and mass murders everyone while the world stays quiet. This is the first time since 2009 that people are paying attention to what's going on Iran and it's not just young people that are out fighting together. You saw Obama himself admit on that podcast recently he messed up by ignoring Iranian people during their 2009 uprising. This time it's even more widespread in Iran but they need the world to stop dealing with the regime via trade and diplomatic relations to actually be able to get rid of them. You can't overthrow the mullahs if we're just gonna give them another nuclear deal and lots of access to their money and trade and they use that power to kill everyone inside.