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Originally Posted by fuluck414
I'm woefully uninformed as to the current going on in Iran. Any good over view or cliffs out there? I read guests of the Ayatollah a few years ago, that's about the extent of my knowledge on Iran.
This one showed up in my newsfeed. Found it to be pretty good.
https://qz.com/1168901/everything-yo...tests-in-iran/
Couple things though:
(1) NYTimes and others have reported that the two protesters were killed by Iranian forces and apparently there is video of them shooting at protesters, although maybe not the specific protesters who died.
(2) Some protesters were also mad about government money being used to support Palestine. Only support for Syria (Assad) and Lebanon are mentioned in the article.
From my own sampling of articles and videos, I notice that representatives for the Iranian government consistently lean hard on the explanation that the US is responsible for protests by harming the economy with sanctions and enflaming people with deceitful media that make the current protests seem like a much bigger movement than is actually occuring. To what degree this is accurate, I can't say, but it is a good strategy for the government, and Trump's tweets play right into it. His "support" must be dispiriting for the protesters.