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Merchants from Iran's bazaars played a key role in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which brought Iran's clerics to power.

Now they may have started a movement to depose those rulers because many of the protesters want more than economic relief.

Some told the ABC they were angry about extensive corruption and decades of mismanagement and wanted an entirely new system of government.

"This anger comes from the sense that the country has been abandoned, as if no-one intends to stop the collapse, the instability, or the soaring prices," Babak* (not their real name) told the ABC.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

And Lebanon, which has been Freedom Bombed from both ends. And Sudan and Ethiopia currently enjoying the tender liberties of a UAE backed civil war.

I suppose you could claim Egypt backslid, but I doubt their handlers in Israel would agree.

Afghanistan is once again out of the heroin business, which has been great for Latin American cartel bosses but not much else

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 0 points 6 days ago

You just added a couple of places that didn't overthrow their leaders.