The following text is the English original of the interview that
Andrew Korybko gave to Iran’s Mashregh News about the recent unrest in
the Islamic Republic: 1- There's a
consensus that the Iran protests started from genuine economic concerns,
but were then hijacked by regime change agents. Who were these agents
and who supported them? To the best of my understanding, yes, the
protests began as apolitical ones against Rouhani’s new budget proposal
that dramatically slashed state subsidies and threatened to reverse many
of the economic gains from the previous Ahmadinejad Administration. [
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