'A hunger revolution': Inside the massive protests sweeping Iran
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Protests spread from the capital Tehran to other cities and across demographics, with people demanding Iran's leaders end the country's clerical rule and hold free elections.

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Merchants from Iran’s bazaars played a key role in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which brought Iran’s clerics to power.

Now they may have started a movement to depose those rulers because many of the protesters want more than economic relief.

Some told the ABC they were angry about extensive corruption and decades of mismanagement and wanted an entirely new system of government.

“This anger comes from the sense that the country has been abandoned, as if no-one intends to stop the collapse, the instability, or the soaring prices,” Babak* (not their real name) told the ABC.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      And Lebanon, which has been Freedom Bombed from both ends. And Sudan and Ethiopia currently enjoying the tender liberties of a UAE backed civil war.

      I suppose you could claim Egypt backslid, but I doubt their handlers in Israel would agree.

      Afghanistan is once again out of the heroin business, which has been great for Latin American cartel bosses but not much else