Protests spread in Iran, following Iraq and Lebanon
by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – Anti-regime protests saw the internet shut down in Iran Saturday night.
Protestors burned gas stations and images of regime leaders in 100 cities and towns across the country in a wave of resentment against President Hassan Rouhani’s austerity measures, which locals said had hiked the price of fuel 50%.
Six protestors were killed by locals, a minor toll compared with the 11,000 wounded and 320 killed across the border in neighboring Iraq since early October, where protests numbering in the hundreds of thousands have seen the Iranian consulate in Karbala attacked four times.
A piece by the New York Times claims the paper obtained 700 secret intelligence cables from Iran showing the Islamic Republic’s plot to take the reigns of its Shi’ite neighbor’s government following the 2003 American invasion of Iraq.
Similar recent protests have also broken out in Lebanon, where the Iranian Hezbollah militia’s continued presence has also made it a target of protestors’ ire there.
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