Inside
the Iran Protests: An IPT Exclusive Video Report
by Steven Emerson
IPT News
July 2, 2018
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Anti-government protests throughout Iran are heating up, with security
forces reportedly killing four protesters Saturday night. The unrest is
driven by Iran's crippling economic conditions. Unemployment is soaring as
Iran's currency, the rial, plummets by more than 50 percent. The city of
Khorramshahr, in southwest Iran near the Iraqi border, has been without
drinkable water for more than two weeks.
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Iran's economy was supposed to be aided by the elimination of economic
sanctions under the nuclear deal reached with the United States and five
allied nations. Instead, the regime chose to invest heavily in proxy wars
in Yemen, in sending its own troops to protect Syrian dictator Bashar
al-Assad, and to underwrite Hamas and Hizballah's endless terror campaigns
aimed at annihilating Israel.
Now the U.S. has withdrawn from the nuclear deal and is imposing new
sanctions, promising to make Iran's economy worse. Ordinary Iranians in
dozens of cities have taken to the street to curse their leaders, curse the
terrorists in far-away lands and to say, essentially, Iran First.
In many of the clips, you will see dozens of people holding their phones
up to record the action. Some of those Iranians sent their videos to an
Investigative Project on Terrorism source to provide an inside look at the
latest uprising against the Iranian regime.
The video starts with images from Khorramshahr, scene of the most
intense demonstrations so far. Reports say four people killed by government
forces. Iran denies any fatalities.
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