Watch this— Raman Ghavami (@Raman_Ghavami) August 3, 2018
Breaking on #IranUpdate,
100 thousand of anti regime protestors who were watching the football match are leaving the stadium and all of them are chanting "death to the dictator, death to Khamenei, death to Rouhani, and Islamic regime must get lost."#Iran#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/etNpc6VVwG
New York Times: Protests Pop Up Across Iran, Fueled by Daily Dissatisfaction
TEHRAN — Across Iran’s heartland, from the sweltering heat of its southern cities to the bustling capital, protesters have taken to the streets with increasing intensity in recent months, much to the satisfaction of the Trump administration, which is hoping the civil unrest will put pressure on Iranian leaders.
Some demonstrations — about the weak economy, strict Islamic rules, water shortages, religious disputes, local grievances — have turned deadly. The protesters have shouted harsh slogans against clerical leaders and their policies. The events are broadly shared on social media and on the dozens of Persian language satellite channels beaming into the Islamic republic.
On Thursday, protests were held in the cities of Arak, Isfahan, Karaj and Shiraz, as people — in numbers ranging in the hundreds, perhaps more — took to the streets, chanting slogans like “death to high prices,” but also criticizing top officials. A smaller protest was held in Tehran, where some people were arrested, according to videos taken at the scene.
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Update #1: Iran crowds reportedly chant 'death to the dictator!' as US sanctions increase economic unrest (FOX News)
Update #2: 'A matter of life and death': Iranians despair as US sanctions bite (Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian)
WNU Editor: This is a story that has definitely been under-reported by the Western media .... Media bury heads in sand over Iranian uprising (UPI). And with sanctions now being imposed, I expect this unrest to grow even more as economic conditions worsen. And while experts are discounting any possibility of regime change .... Expecting regime change through Iran sanctions is ‘naive and unrealistic,’ experts say (CNBC), I am old enough to remember when experts were saying the same thing in the 1980s about the Soviet Union and the U.S. sanctions that were in place then, and how wrong they were when the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union fell apart a few years later.
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It will be a bitter pill for the EU should Iran’s people go full on revolution and overthrow the mullah. It will have happened despite the EU but with American support. Guess who gets in on the ground floor to rebuild the mess? Donald Trumps America.
Of course a civil war breaking out in Iran would be catastrophic for everyone.Another complicated option is if the iranians decide to start a major foreign war in order to distract from internal issues.
We should think about what happens next when the regime falls which I think is just a matter of time. Another Libia or Syria? Or will this be like Afghanistan or Iraq? The common thread with all these is that they are all failed states with very little political and legal systems. I fear Iran will become another quagmire and will be run by clan leaders with no real central government. Maybe not so bad...
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