Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei backed his government's decision to raise gas prices by 50% and called protesters 'thugs.'
Kim HjelmgaardRiot police detain protesters amid clouds of tear gas at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 18, 2019.Anti-government unrest in Iran following a decision by authorities to dramatically raise gas prices spread to a reported 100 cities and towns Monday as Tehran became the latest nation around the world to see mass protests, sometimes violent, that have broken out in recent months from Lebanon to Hong Kong.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei late Sunday backed his government's decision to raise gas prices by 50% and called protesters there who have been setting fire to public property over the hike"thugs." Iran also imposed a near total Internet blackout over the weekend, according to NetBlocks, a group that monitors international Internet access.
The Internet blackout has made it difficult to know how many people have been arrested, injured or killed. Iranian authorities on Sunday raised the official death toll to at least three. It said about 1,000 protesters have been arrested. In Hong Kong, where protesters have been clashing with police for months over fears China's central government in Beijing is undermining the territory's judicial independence, a group of demonstrators barricaded themselves inside a university campus to keep police from getting in. They are now cornered and trying to get out.
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