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How Iran’s Economic Protests Started — And How They Could End

Today on the Big Take: Weeks of protests and the prospect of international intervention pose existential threats to Iran’s regime.

A protest in Tehran on Jan. 9.Photographer: MAHSA/AFP

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Weeks of protests in Iran started over the high price of food and essential goods. They quickly engulfed the nation and, before long, were met with deadly force by the Iranian regime’s security forces.