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2019-11-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Iran says 200,000 took part in anti-government demos
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
gave a glimpse on Wednesday into the scale of what may have been the biggest anti-government protests in the 40 year history of the Islamic Theocratic Republic , with officials saying 200,000 people had taken part and a politician saying 7,000 were arrested.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
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...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
, in his strongest remarks since the unrest peaked, described the two weeks of violence as the work of a "very dangerous conspiracy," while insisting it had since been completely put down.
Iran has given no official corpse count for the unrest, but Amnesia Amnesty International said earlier this week that it had documented the deaths of at least 143 protesters, a total Tehran has said it rejects.
A figure anywhere close to that would make it the deadliest anti-government unrest at least since the authorities put down a "Green Revolution" of election protests in 2009, and probably since the 1979 Islamic Revolution itself.
According to IRNA, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said up to 200,000 people took part nationwide in the unrest. Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini, a member of parliament’s national security committee, said about 7,000 people had been arrested, news website Entekhab reported.
Full details of the unrest have been difficult to report from outside Iran, especially as the authorities have shut down the internet.
Fazli said around 731 banks, 70 petrol stations and 140 government sites had been torched. More than 50 bases used by security forces were attacked, he said, in remarks published by the official IRNA news agency.
The struggle of ordinary Iranians to make ends meet has become harder since last year when Washington quit an agreement to lift sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program. The US administration says its aim is to force Tehran to negotiate a more comprehensive deal.
There has been about a 20 million liter drop in daily gasoline consumption since the price hike, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. Daily consumption was about 98 million liters before the hike, the state fuel distribution company NIOPDC reported on Tuesday.
The government said the gasoline price rises of as much as 50 percent aim to raise around $2.55 billion a year for extra subsidies to 18 million families struggling on low incomes.
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