Iran’s top leader warns ‘thugs’ as protests reach 100 cities

Politico

The government recently raised gasoline prices by 50 percent.

. . . "Since the price hike, demonstrators have abandoned cars along major highways and joined mass protests in the capital, Tehran, and elsewhere. Some protests turned violent, with demonstrators setting fires as gunfire rang out.
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"In a statement issued Sunday, the Trump administration condemned “the lethal force and severe communications restrictions used against demonstrators.”
“Tehran has fanatically pursued nuclear weapons and missile programs, and supported terrorism, turning a proud nation into another cautionary tale of what happens when a ruling class abandons its people and embarks on a crusade for personal power and riches,” the White House statement said.
"In Dubai, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates told The Associated Press that America was “not advocating regime change. We are going to let the Iranian people decide for themselves their future.”
“They are frustrated. They want freedom,” Ambassador John Rakolta said at the Dubai Airshow. “These developments that you see right now are their own people telling them, ‘We need change and to sit down with the American government.’”

Nick Short 
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A courageous woman tears down a "Death to America" poster in Iran. The crowd is chanting, "Death to the dictator," in a reference to @Khamenei_ir.
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Alireza Nader@AlirezaNader
“We have no money or fuel, to hell with Palestine.” Anti regime protests in Islamshahr,