A volunteer member of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed in a western province during widening demonstrations sparked by the Islamic Republic’s ailing economy, authorities said Thursday, marking the first fatality among security forces during the protests.

Spontaneous protests, driven by dissatisfaction at Iran’s economic stagnation, began on Sunday in Tehran’s largest mobile phone market, where shopkeepers shuttered their businesses, and have since drawn in students across the country.

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      America staged a coup in Iran and backed religious hardliners to replace a democratically elected leader and turned the country into the shit hole it became, of course I wouldn’t expect an American to know this or give a shit, just wave the flag and scream USA