The Washington Post | Erin Cunningham: A sudden move to raise fuel prices in Iran has sparked nationwide protests over the past week and, in turn, drawn a fierce crackdown by security forces. Scores have been reported killed.

The protests have flared in many of the same areas that experienced unrest two years ago, when demonstrators protested a similar proposal to slash state subsidies. Then, as now, �lower-income Iranians rose up against a system they said had failed them economically.

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