After Iran Protests, Feared Security Force Says ‘World War’ on Nation Failed

• After Iran Protests, Feared Security Force Says ‘World War’ on Nation Failed
  by AFP and TOI STAFF, https://www.timesofisrael.com/
  Basij militia official claims interrogations of demonstrators revealed a ‘coalition of evil’ made up of ‘Zionists, America and Saudi Arabia’ behind the mass rallies
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  Iran’s Basij militia said the nationwide unrest sparked by fuel price hikes amounted to a “world war” against the Islamic republic that had been foiled. The protests erupted across the sanctions-hit country on November 15, after the price of gas was raised by as much as 200 percent.
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  Authorities said leaders of the protests in which police stations were attacked, gas pumps torched and shops looted had been arrested. “A full-fledged world war against the system and the revolution was born and fortunately the child died at the moment of birth,” said Brigadier General Salar Abnoosh, a deputy head of the feared paramilitary arm of the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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