The idea of decentralizing government and the economy is hardly new in Iran; one can find proposals going back to the Constitutional Revolution early in the 20th Century. The experience of the protests last fall may have given new impetus to the idea of decentralization. The relatively heavy fighting the security forces had to engage in to suppress the protests in Kurdish-majority areas and Sunni-majority Sistan and Baluchestan, in particular, may have focused minds in the IRGC and among the less dogmatic principlist politicians. Read more here <<--