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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    Fun fact. Iran was a decent democracy back in the time, then US staged a coup and the rest is history.

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      Britain played a major role in that coup too, they were trying to get back at Mossadegh for nationalizing Anglo-iranian oil, now known as British Petroleum.

      CIA 🤝 MI6 Fucking things up since the invention of the cold war.

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    One of the worst fascist regimes on the planet falling would be a promising start for 2026. One can hope.

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      As long as it doesn’t fall to a civil war or just because another american and israeli puppet state

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          One of the worst fascist regimes on the planet

          It says “One of the worst fascist regimes on the planet” in the comment

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                But there can be multiple that we refer to as “one of the worst” so in a thread about Iran there’s no need to bring up the US which already gets plenty of attention

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                  The original comment was kind of a joke on phrasing, but I see that here we are dead serious. So I humbly apologize to all deeply offended and I also take back comment that worst is technically one of the worst as according to downvotes it isn’t. 🤷‍♂️

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    Spontaneous protests

    Western sanctions causing economic hardship against those trying to escape their colonialism, and then using their created economic hardship to stage color revolutions. The playbook is at it again.