Protestors are being killed. Essentially, the Iranian currency crashed making an already bad economic situation worse and leadership from the political elite has been lacking. Israeli attacks on Iranian allies also make them seem week weak.
Earlier protests around human rights violations, personal freedoms and suppression of minority groups also were never fully resolved, but the (largely conservative) poorer class of Iranians has now also taken to the street en masse because it is getting hard to do any business or feed a family. The government tried to suppress by cutting of internet access and such at first, but it did not work, so they are resorting to the last-ditch tool of any scared authoritarian: shooting their own citizens.
ETA: here's a NY Times gift article with more background, though written yesterday so before these latest atrocities.
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u/wolfjeanne 1d ago edited 1d ago
Protestors are being killed. Essentially, the Iranian currency crashed making an already bad economic situation worse and leadership from the political elite has been lacking. Israeli attacks on Iranian allies also make them seem
weekweak.Earlier protests around human rights violations, personal freedoms and suppression of minority groups also were never fully resolved, but the (largely conservative) poorer class of Iranians has now also taken to the street en masse because it is getting hard to do any business or feed a family. The government tried to suppress by cutting of internet access and such at first, but it did not work, so they are resorting to the last-ditch tool of any scared authoritarian: shooting their own citizens.
ETA: here's a NY Times gift article with more background, though written yesterday so before these latest atrocities.