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Author: Populist Revolt, Seeds of Prosperity and Putting Pakistan Right. Columnist, Dawn, Visiting Faculty EMBA
Jan 10 7 tweets 1 min read
🧵The Iran unrest kicked off around December 28 in Tehran’s bazaars over a brutal economic crunch: inflation is 45%, value of currency has collapsed making basics like food and medicine unaffordable. It quickly snowballed into full anti-regime fury 1/6 Protests are decentralised and largely leaderless on the ground; no formal hierarchy or rebel structure. Gen Z and students are driving a lot of it, with merchants, workers, and ethnic minorities piling on. Protests are nationwide at over five hundred locations 2/6