correspondent eric roundoff in tehran i asked him what we know about this latest round of anti-government protests and here's what he said. it's hard to say exactly what's happening outside in the provinces protest to go protest always happening in smaller towns and cities here and tear up but we can all see your goals of violence. this morning we've seen very impressive show strength from the regime tens of thousands of people who. are going round in several major cities not yet in tehran that's coming from but it. does appear that go to sort of the top. yet and when we look at the causes for example of these anti-government protests we know that for example the uprising has been the biggest since two thousand and nine but that crackdown underway as you mentioned and hundreds already arrested how strong would you say is the will for those protesters to continue and how big a threat are they posing to the regime at this point. we're better than two thousand and nine these protests have been much smaller really don't how can i do the figures we're talking in the silence wrote them in the h

correspondent eric roundoff who is standing by with the latest from tehran welcome to you eric we know that the head of the revolutionary guard has said that the anti-government protests have essentially been defeated or or wiped out so to speak what are you hearing. yeah it's been pretty quiet here are. very few protests last night a very heavy police presence including really good revolutionary guards on the streets very hard for us to verify information we're getting from the problems but the fact that there are far fewer videos posted on social media suggests that they have indeed died down to a considerable extent at least more broadly speaking what do you think that the protests over the last week reveal about iran's leadership are we for example seeing cracks between hardliners and moderates in the regime does these kind of just off to the budget announced by the president hassan rouhani in which he made some pretty unpopular austerity measures cuts to welfare raising fuel prices not hard line is it's a really been attacking him on those issues finding does the best way to under