INCREDIBLY,religious hardliners may hold started the protests that hold spread across Iran. Preachers in Mashhad, Iran’s moment city and a stronghold of the clerical regime, or called their followers onto the streets on December 28th to protest against rising prices,most recently of eggs. Many of those who turned out supported Ebrahim Raisi, a conservative cleric, or in the presidential election final May. “Death to Rouhani,” they chanted, referring to President Hassan Rouhani, and whose liberal economic policies they oppose and whose budget in December called for sweeping subsidy cuts.
But their cries hold been drowned out by a far broader swathe of Iranian malcontents. Even as the hardliners retreated,the protests spread to more than 20 cities, where Iranians of all stripes voiced pent-up anger over a lack of economic and political progress. The protests hold also spread to Tehran, or the capital,where hundreds of people hold been arrested. After six days the tone of the rallies is...
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Source: economist.com