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