[Eddie01]

Lengthy, but in my opinion unfiltered, in-depth and accurate.

[dhs12345]

Demand for petroleum is down?

[gaijin]

Freacking

[bert]

-—Those who damage public property, violate law and order, and create unrest are responsible for their actions and should pay the price.”——

Words never spoken by Barack Obama who condoned the violence, the looting and burning by his out of control black Lives Matter stooges

[donozark]

The Mullahs are refusing to divide the $$ the Clinton’s gave them?

[fhayek]

Pollution, that’s it. Couldn’t be that the price of petroleum is down, and Trump is in the White House. It might be their best chance at toppling the regime.

[gandalftb]

I think this is a better explanation:
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/1.832218

Cost of Living in Iran is not the issue:
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Iran';

[LRoggy]

I can not imagine a bigger win FOR THE WORLD than an overthrow of the Mullahs in Iran.

And then imagine the Iranians who take over pulling a Qaddafi and giving up their nuke program?

How bad would Obama look then? And George Friedman of Stratfor, for that matter . . .

Of course Morning Joe would bemoan the unfair praise due Trump . . . and Krugman would call if a catastrophe for the Stock Market . . . well, you get the point . . .

[Billthedrill]

Mentioned in the article is that the 0bama administration's lifting of sanctions in the nuclear "deal" has released "tens of billions of dollars" in trade restricted by those sanctions. It's a financial windfall that has failed to reach the citizens, and the popular view is that it has all been, or is about to be, squandered on military activity. We are informed that the IRG has ambitions of establishing a port and shipping facilities in Syria (so did the Russians) to further fund and export Islamic revolution but that will constitute a drain on the economy for the foreseeable future. In short, the people in the street had hoped for change when Ahmadinejad left and have been presented with unceasing war.

One upshot of this investment in violence, however, is a ready supply of armed thugs which may be called upon to support the regime and put down the protesters, as they did in 2009. This isn't going to be any Velvet Revolution. The real damage the 0bama administration did in backing the regime in 2009 and presenting it with an enormous financial windfall (literally pallets of cash and that wasn't all by any means) as a consequence of the nuclear negotiations, is something that is going to cost the entire Middle East dearly in the coming years. I wish success to the demonstrators but I wouldn't place any large bets in that direction.

[Tallguy]

Revolutions happen when the peoples’ expectations exceed what the government is delivering. Therefore, revolutions often happen when things are actually improving.

[Drew68]

Brave Iranian woman protests pollution. Removes hajib in defiance of Islamic dress code, uses it to wave the smog away. So brave.

Drumpf's fault.