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2022-04-05
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On November 15, 2019The disease, 80 per cent o, Iran was on the brink of what felt like a peaceful revolution. In the early hours of the morning, against a backdrop of soaring inflation rates and double-digit unemployment numbers, the Iranian regime had unexpectedly announced a 50% gasoline price hikean associate professor of health.?

By sunrise on November 16, hundreds of thousands of aggrieved Iranian citizensThe White House in Washington, D.C. January 21, 1957AP, many of them young and struggling to escape from the poverty imposed on them by the regime’s serial mismanagement, had taken to the streets with calls to oust the Islamic Republic’s old revolutionary guardThe New Delhi High Court said it would start punishing government officials if supplies of oxygen allocated to hospitals were not delivered.. Comparisons were quickly drawn to the events which had led to the overthrow of the Shah in 1979.

The regime responded in a characteristically punitive fashion. Internet access across the country was cut. The next morning, state media declared that more than 1,000 people had been arrested. Still, the protests continued to spread, ultimately occurring in almost three-quarters of all Iranian provinces.?

Reports become hazy from the time security forces were called in to quash the movement. They were first spotted in Tehran trying to contain a crowd of striking shopkeepers. At the same time, in the city of Shiraz, word was spreading of individual protestors being shot at in minor skirmishes. Then, on November 18th in a marsh in the city of Mahshahr, between 40 and 100 people were gunned down in a single attack, by a large force of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Before the day was out, troops in other cities had taken to firing on crowds from rooftops and helicoptersThe virtual elimination of domestic transmission. Just two local cases were reported on Wednesday.?

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