Iran protests: After Kazerun, where will be the next flash point?
Every day, the Iranian regime is creating grounds for new protests to take place in the country Iran, May 24, 2018 - In December, protests that erupted in the eastern city of Mashhad over unemployment, poverty and government corruption quickly turned into a nationwide protest across Iran. Although the regime brutally cracked down on the protesters, tensions continued to simmer and manifest themselves in smaller yet constant protests in other parts of the country. Last week, the protests in Kazerun, which had begun about a few months earlier over the government’s plans to divide the city into smaller areas, turned into clashes between the government and people when security forces attacked and killed several of the protesters. As the Kazerun protests showed, the social climate across the entirety of Iran is tense, and chances that uprisings reoccur are very high. Here are a few of the ongoing crises that might flare up in the coming weeks and months: ...