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According to this, some reports suggest that some of the people who initiated these protests are regime hardliners who are hitting at Rouhani from the right; author says it's conflicting groups that are rallying around inflationary prices and Rouhani's failure to address the economic malaise and compares it to previous protests for reform rather than regime overthrow: http://jadaliyya.com/Details/34931 - Amith On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 11:17 PM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > https://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/ > demonstrations-in-iran-to-protest-against-poverty-and- > intervention-in-syria/ <https://syriafreedomforever. > wordpress.com/2017/12/29/demonstrations-in-iran-to- > protest-against-poverty-and-intervention-in-syria/> > > "Not Gaza, not Lebanon, my soul is the redemption of Iran" > "Leave Syria and think about us” > > The demonstrators could be cast as lacking in international solidarity. I > wasn’t surprised to see the Palestinian flag carried in the pro-government > demonstration. > One might reasonably ask what Iran has ever done for Gaza. > > ken h > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com