• More anti-government protests broke out Friday in Iran, in the latest unrest to sweep the country. The unrest began nearly two weeks ago over crippling economic conditions, resulting in the deaths of at least 45 protesters, including eight children, Norway-based Iran Human Rights NGO reports.
  • Authorities cut internet access and telephone lines in Tehran and other cities after major protests on Thursday.
  • Donald Trump has threatened to attack Iran if security forces kill protesters, but on Friday Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US president should “focus on the problems of his own country.”
  • The latest demonstrations are the biggest since the large-scale protests that were sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the religious police in 2022.
  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPM
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    10 days ago

    i don’t know if these are going to topple the current government, but they’re in effect the culmination of every protest movement of the past few years and they’re coming after a reformist was elected so it seems something is going to have to give here