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This article explains more about what is going on in Iran
https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/todays-protests-in-iran-suggest-revolution-is-brewing/
https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/todays-protests-in-iran-suggest-revolution-is-brewing/
Today saw the biggest protest in Tehran in six years, as the Grand Bazaar closed and demonstrators made their way from there to the parliament building to express their discontent with their government.
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Thousands of people marched and chanted in the streets of the capital, and the regime sent riot police to beat and tear-gas them into submission. It didn’t work; large groups of protesters rushed at the police, forcing them to flee, and torched many of the motorcycles they left behind.
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Like the Mashhad uprising, this one in Tehran—and my sources tell me similar ones are taking place today in Shiraz, Qeshm, Kermanshah, and Mashhad—began over economic concerns and almost immediately turned political, as Iranians recognise a corrupt theocracy has no concern for the citizens who keep it fed. Iran’s currency, the rial, has lost half its value against the U.S. dollar in less than a year; the government has set an exchange rate of 42,000 rials to $1, but dollars are going for 90,000 rials on the black market.
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The chants heard in Iran today suggest revolution is brewing: “Leave Syria alone. Think of us instead!” “Our enemy is right here, they lie when they say it’s America!” “Beware of the day we pick up arms!” “We will fight, we will die, we will take back Iran!” “We will fight, we will die, we will not accept humiliation!” “Death to Khamenei!”
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A crucial class is now all in. It’s possible that without the support of the bazaari, as the influential traders and merchants are called, the Islamic Revolution that toppled the shah in 1979 might never have succeeded.
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Thousands of people marched and chanted in the streets of the capital, and the regime sent riot police to beat and tear-gas them into submission. It didn’t work; large groups of protesters rushed at the police, forcing them to flee, and torched many of the motorcycles they left behind.
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Like the Mashhad uprising, this one in Tehran—and my sources tell me similar ones are taking place today in Shiraz, Qeshm, Kermanshah, and Mashhad—began over economic concerns and almost immediately turned political, as Iranians recognise a corrupt theocracy has no concern for the citizens who keep it fed. Iran’s currency, the rial, has lost half its value against the U.S. dollar in less than a year; the government has set an exchange rate of 42,000 rials to $1, but dollars are going for 90,000 rials on the black market.
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The chants heard in Iran today suggest revolution is brewing: “Leave Syria alone. Think of us instead!” “Our enemy is right here, they lie when they say it’s America!” “Beware of the day we pick up arms!” “We will fight, we will die, we will take back Iran!” “We will fight, we will die, we will not accept humiliation!” “Death to Khamenei!”
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A crucial class is now all in. It’s possible that without the support of the bazaari, as the influential traders and merchants are called, the Islamic Revolution that toppled the shah in 1979 might never have succeeded.