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| Iran cleric urges tough response after price protests turn political |
| 2017-12-29 |
| A top cleric in Iran's second largest city of Mashhad called for tough action by security forces after hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against high prices and shouted anti-government slogans, state news agency IRNA said on Friday. Police arrested 52 people in Thursday's protests, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a judicial official as saying in Mashhad, one of the holiest places in Shi'ite Islam. Political protests are rare in Iran. But demonstrations are often held by workers over layoffs or non-payment of salaries and people who hold deposits in non-regulated bankrupt financial institutions. "If the security and law enforcement agencies leave the rioters to themselves, enemies will publish films and pictures in their media and say that the Islamic Republic system has lost its revolutionary base in Mashhad," IRNA quoted prominent conservative cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda as saying. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 It would be amazing if a revolution removed the '79 Revolution from power. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-12-29 22:09 |
| #1 They'd better. 0bumhole won't be there to bail them out again. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-12-29 21:53 |