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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 01:08 PM Jan 2018

Whats driving the deadly protests in Iran?



Jan 1, 2018
Iranians continued to demonstrate against the clerical leadership on Monday amid economic hardships. Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, describes the factors behind the unrest and how the protests differ from previous ones.
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Whats driving the deadly protests in Iran? (Original Post) L. Coyote Jan 2018 OP
Good information, but I think the expectations of Iranians for economic benefit from the nuclear still_one Jan 2018 #1
Maybe they are emboldened by our own protests against Trump? The are not an oppressed people, secondwind Jan 2018 #2

still_one

(92,219 posts)
1. Good information, but I think the expectations of Iranians for economic benefit from the nuclear
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 01:32 PM
Jan 2018

agreement is being understated

The nuclear agreement was a tremendous milestone in relations between Iran and the United States since the Iranian hostage crisis, but Congress behind the scenes has been undermining any economic benefit to Iran, and including slapping new economic sanctions on Iran which made the situation even worse.

With the loud mouth imbecile in the WH, and the republicans using these protests for political purposes, and to falsely push the theme that these protests prove the Iran Nuclear Deal was a failure, it wouldn't surprise me if the ideological extremists in the U.S. will try to push us into another Mideast debacle as was done with our invasion of Iraq, and as with the invasion of Iraq, our interference in Iran would create a much more precarious blowback and instability in the entire region


secondwind

(16,903 posts)
2. Maybe they are emboldened by our own protests against Trump? The are not an oppressed people,
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 07:31 PM
Jan 2018

more tha 60% of people in Iran are under the age of 40. They are very westernized and modern.

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