{"id":49667,"date":"2019-11-16T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49667"},"modified":"2019-11-16T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:21:02","slug":"iran-burning-shock-gas-price-hike-triggers-violent-protests-after-subsidy-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49667","title":{"rendered":"Iran Burning: Shock Gas Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests After Subsidy Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/violent-protests-break-out-iran-after-shock-gas-price-hike-subsidies-cut\">Iran Burning: Shock Gas Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests After Subsidy Cuts<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With protests and unrest&nbsp;raging in multiple hot spots around the globe from Latin America to Hong Kong to Lebanon and Iraq, it could be Iran&#8217;s turn to join in.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid a fresh price hike in gasoline\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>the latest in a string of woes to hit the sanctions ravaged Iranian economy, ultimately making life miserable for the common populace\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em><strong>rare mass protests have broken out in multiple cities<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/iranprotestsnew.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/iranprotestsnew.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/iranprotestsnew-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/iranprotestsnew-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/iranprotestsnew.jpg?itok=gD57ZWjl\"><em>Image source: RFERL\/Iranian social meida\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Protests and clashes with police began Friday when\u00a0<strong>petrol prices suddenly rose by at least 50% after government subsidies on it were slashed<\/strong>. Government statements said the plan is to divert the funds in order to make cash payments to low-income households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In essence Tehran authorities dubiously claim they were forced to &#8220;free up money&#8221; to assist the poor; however, it appears more drastic scrambling as Tehran struggles to find global purchasers to offload its oil.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>, Nov 16- Millions of citizens across the country take to streets, closing the roads to protest against tripling gas prices. Video sent form the city of Shiraz.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a6FSw9gAEN\">pic.twitter.com\/a6FSw9gAEN<\/a>\u2014 Persian Reuters (@PersianReuters)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PersianReuters\/status\/1195721769405038592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And as of Saturday&nbsp;<em>Reuters Persian&nbsp;<\/em>reports that&nbsp;<strong>gas prices have tripled<\/strong>, taking millions of angry middle class demonstrators to the streets across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Early report about middle class and upper class protesting in Tehran Pars is now confirmed. People are on t he streets chanting \u201cdown with the dictator\u201d and burning Sina Bank.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AUOt9kFtw1\">https:\/\/t.co\/AUOt9kFtw1<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BNB5x0Tils\">pic.twitter.com\/BNB5x0Tils<\/a>\u2014 Raman Ghavami (@Raman_Ghavami)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Raman_Ghavami\/status\/1195732454285414400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC reports that the protests are fierce enough to have already led to at least two deaths and multiple injured as demonstrations are active\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-50444429\">in at least a dozen cities<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran Burning: Shock Gas Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests After Subsidy Cuts With protests and unrest&nbsp;raging in multiple hot spots around the globe from Latin America to Hong Kong to Lebanon and Iraq, it could be Iran&#8217;s turn to join in.&nbsp; Amid a fresh price hike in gasoline\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the latest in a string of woes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1423,441,4318],"class_list":["post-49667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-gasoline-price","tag-iran","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49668,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49667\/revisions\/49668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}