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Politics

Understanding Iran's new protest movement

Neil King | Yalda Zarbakhch | Lena Nozizwe
January 12, 2018

A protest movement has been spreading across Iran for weeks, resulting in the death of at least 21 and arrest of over 3,700 people. The demonstrations started out of economic grievances, but quickly transformed into dissent against Iran's political and religious elite. Find out why a German-Iranian journalist thinks change is unstoppable and hear what Iranians in the US have to say on the matter.

https://p.dw.com/p/2qkMA
 Yalda Zarbakhch
Yalda Zarbakhch Head of DW Persian@yaldina