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Iran’s leaders are facing a perfect storm of crises. Bloody crackdown could spell the end
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The current wave of protests in Iran was triggered by a sharp deterioration in economic conditions marked by a sudden collapse of the national currency.
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LONDON – With a near-total internet blackout and an equally tight blockade on mobile communications and border movements, it is hard to be accurate about what is happening inside Iran.
But estimates that the authorities have shot dead hundreds of anti-government demonstrators
