Posted on 05/07/2017 7:33:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Angry coal miners besieged a car carrying Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday after he visited the site of a deadly mine explosion, a rare protest targeting the nation’s top elected official as he campaigns for re-election.
Soot-covered miners, enraged over the disaster that reportedly killed at least 35 miners Wednesday in Iran’s northern Golestan province, kicked and beat the armored SUV carrying Rouhani.
The incident offered an extraordinary sign of very public dissent ahead of Iran’s May 19 presidential poll, a contest largely viewed as a referendum on Rouhani and his nuclear deal with world powers. […]
Rouhani remains the favorite in the election as every Iranian president since Khamenei himself took the presidency in 1981 has won re-election. However, many in the country remain discontent as the benefits of the nuclear deal have yet to trickle down to the average Iranian. …
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What was this?
Indeed
Hillary sponsored overthrow of the Egyptian government.
If only we had a POTUS that would help the Iranians overthrow their wicked government. Oh snap.....WE DO!!!!!!
The ONLY country Obama/Clinton did not try to meddle with and spur revolution was Iran. This country is trapped in a box. One way or another, we will have to remove both North Korea and Iran or eventually a million Americans will be dead. China is playing the US like a fiddle with these two wild cards.
::””as the benefits of the nuclear deal have yet to trickle down to the average Iranian::””
Couldn’t find anything in the article itself that spelled out what THOSE expected benefits are..
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