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[citation needed] Iran's Stock Market Exchange bubble finally burst on 24 January. [citation needed] As a result, many people lost investments, so there were large protests in Tehran where police fired on protesters. On 7 February, the Iranian media warned of another uprising after major protests in February. [citation needed]
The pro-government counter protesters called for the Mahsa Amini protesters to be executed, and referred to them as "Israel's soldiers" whilst shouting "Death to America" and "Death to Israel", reflecting Iran's clerical rulers' usual narrative that dissatisfaction with its rule is the result of foreign conspiracy not its own doing.
In a wide-ranging campaign speech in California, U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to "free Iran" and stated that demonstrators would soon succeed in freeing themselves. During the speech dozens of demonstrators gathered outside and held banners in support of the protesters in Iran.
That followed then-President Donald Trump's unilateral withdrawal of America from Iran's nuclear deal with world powers in 2018 — an act that sparked years of tensions in the Middle East and saw ...
Iran's clerical rulers are clamping down on dissent ahead of the anniversary of the death of a young woman in morality police custody, fearing a revival of nationwide protests that rocked the ...
The protests sweeping Iran have sounded the death knell for a once vibrant reform movement, revealing a big divide with Iranians in the streets demanding an end to theocratic rule. The reformists ...
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's deposed Shah, tweeted that the Islamic Republic had brought only poverty and suffering to the Iranian people. He also said that the only thing offered for free by the Islamic Republic was oil to its allies in the region, a reference to Syria's president Bashar al-Assad. [193]
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have put down unrest in the country’s Kurdish areas for decades and many Kurdish activists have been sentenced to long jail terms or death.