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The Massive New Protests in Iran Explained

Author: Zack Beauchamp

In: Vox, 2018

Report on how small group protests in Iran's second largest city, Mashhad, in December 2017 rapidly grew into major demonstrations reported in most provinces across Iran, with crowds often demanding an end to the dominance of senior clerics and the Revolutionary Guard. Beauchamp notes that protests on specifically economic issues, the responsibility of the parliamentary leader President Rouhani, could be acceptable to the religious leaders, but a direct challenge to their own dominance was not. 

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https://www.vox.com/world/2018/1/3/16841310/iran-protests-2018