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  • Miners at disaster site besiege Iranian president's car

    05/07/2017 7:33:56 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 7 replies
    Associated Press ^ | May 7, 2017 9:59 AM EDT | Amir Vahdat and John Gambrell
    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...
  • IRAN'S LATEST ETHNIC REVOLT

    01/14/2008 2:39:53 AM PST · by SatinDoll · 11 replies · 193+ views
    The New York Post ^ | January 14, 2008 | Amir Taheri
    Facing ethnic revolts in both Baluchistan and Kur distan, the last thing that Tehran might have wanted was a similar problem in another corner of Iran with a non-Persian majority. Yet that seems to be happening in Golestan, one of Iran's 30 provinces, with the ethnic Turkmen community seething with anger against Tehran. It all started on Jan. 4, when a gunboat of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot and killed a 20-year-old Turkmen fisherman in the coastal waters of the Caspian Sea. The authorities claim that the fisherman, one Hissmauddin Khadivar, had been part of an illegal fishing expedition...