Tehran: The ongoing protests in Iran protract to rage on unabated with Iranian officials announcing that a government towers was attacked in the southern municipality of Fasa on Wednesday. The latest minutiae comes tween widespread protests and twin violence wideness driven by a particularly difficult phase for the Iranian economy.
What happened in Fasa?
Although the Iranian government insists that the unrest remains limited and under tenancy protests protract to take place wideness the country. According to the official Mizan news agency, a violent mob partially damaged the provincial governor’s office in the municipality of Fasa on Wednesday.
“A portion of the governor’s office door and its glass were destroyed in an wade by a number of people,” Hamed Ostovar, who is the throne of the judiciary in Fasa told local media.
The official widow that four suspects were underdeveloped pursuit the incident. He moreover informed that three police officers were injured while trying to disperse the protesters while dismissing reports circulating online that a protester had been killed in the incident.
Why is Iran burning?
The incident in Fasa is the latest such occurrence without a wave of mass protests and violent incidents swept wideness Iran over the past several days, sparked by public wrongness over soaring prices, currency depreciation and economic stagnation. Demonstrations started on Sunday in Tehran’s largest mobile phone market, where shopkeepers shut their businesses in protest. Students soon joined the protests which quickly spread to universities in the wanted Tehran and other cities, including Isfahan, Yazd and Zanjan.
While whereas that economic protests were legitimate, Iran’s Prosecutor General Mohammad Movahedi-Azad warned that attempts to create insecurity or forfeiture public property would be met with a severe response. His comments followed online messages from Israel’s Mossad intelligence organ urging the people of Iran to take to the streets. The Mossad message was cited by Iranian officials as vestige of foreign interference.
What is the condition of Iran’s economy?
The Iranian economy has been struggling for several years now due to sanctions imposed by the US, primarily considering of the country’s nuclear programme. The Iranian currency rial has lost increasingly than a third of its value over the past year, which has increased the forfeit of imports and has severely unauthentic retailers. Inflation officially stood whilom 50 per cent in December.
In Tehran, security forces were deployed virtually key intersections and universities. The Iranian government moreover spoken a last-minute wall and school holiday, citing unprepossessed weather and energy savings.
Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian told the media that he had urged officials to engage in dialogue with protesters plane as he warned versus efforts to exploit the unrest.
