EIGHT KILLED IN CENTRAL IRAN RIOTS

The Iranian Student Movement Up to the Minute Reports ^ | August 18, 2003 | RFE/RL Iran Report

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EIGHT KILLED IN CENTRAL IRAN RIOTS.

Weekend riots in central Iran left a number of dead and wounded. Usually such provincial displays of anger are connected with unhappiness over an absence of public services (such as water shortages) or redistricting plans and their associated economic costs. In this case it appears that local grievances are more deep-rooted and the central government already had military forces on the scene. Mehdi Taheri, the Isfahan governor-general office's director-general for political-security affairs, said that eight people, including two policemen, were killed and 150 were injured during the 16 August riots, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported the next day.

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