A wave of spontaneous protests over Iran’s weak economy swept into Tehran on Saturday, with college students and others chanting against the government just hours after hard-liners held their own rally in support of the Islamic Republic’s clerical establishment.
The demonstrations appear to be the largest to strike the Islamic Republic since the protests that followed the country’s disputed 2009 presidential election.
Jed Babbin is a former United States Deputy Undersecretary of Defense & contributor to the Washington Times and The American Spectator. He joined Dan and Amy with reaction to the protests in Iran: