Iran protests: Fuel price rise shakes nation as demonstrations ignited
A sharp spike in fuel prices has ignited days of anti-government protests across , leaving at least one person dead and potentially plunging the country into a new political crisis. Thousands of demonstrators defied freezing temperatures to take to the streets of the capital Tehran and other towns and cites including Isfahan, Shiraz and Tabriz. Despite a late autumn snow storm, protesters blocked roads, burnt tyres, attacked police kiosks, torched banks, buses and petrols stations, and confronted riot police. In one widespread gesture of ...
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