How the Iranian regime put down economic protests

ALMOST IMMEDIATELY after the government of Iran switched the internet back on, the stories started coming out. Near the city of Mahshahr alone, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps surrounded, shot and killed 40 to 100 protesters in a marsh, witnesses told the New York Times. Altogether, between 180 and 450 people are thought to have been killed by the government during protests over a rise in the state-controlled price of fuel last month. About 7,000 people were detained out of the hundreds of thousands who took to the streets in all but two of Iran’s 31 provinces. Not since the Islamic revolution in 1979 has the country experienced such deadly unrest.