Massive protests sweeping Iran as citizens demand new system of government after decades of mismanagement and extensive corruption
Massive protests sweeping Iran as citizens demand new system of government after decades of mismanagement and extensive corruption
'A hunger revolution': Inside the massive protests sweeping Iran
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Merchants from Iran's bazaars played a key role in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which brought Iran's clerics to power.
Now they may have started a movement to depose those rulers because many of the protesters want more than economic relief.
Some told the ABC they were angry about extensive corruption and decades of mismanagement and wanted an entirely new system of government.
"This anger comes from the sense that the country has been abandoned, as if no-one intends to stop the collapse, the instability, or the soaring prices," Babak* (not their real name) told the ABC.
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