2026-01-03
8 分钟Anti-government protests over the economy turned deadly in Iran.
It's World Business Express from the BBC, World Service.
I'm Gideon Long.
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But we start in the Iranian capital Tehran.
That's the sound of protesters attacking a police station on Thursday night.
The authorities say seven people have been killed in violence across the country.
Today, Friday marks the sixth day in a row of nationwide anti-government protests,
triggered by a sharp drop in the value of the currency and the rising cost of living.
Donald Trump says the US is, in his words,
locked and loaded and ready to go if the Iranian authorities kill peaceful protesters.
This young woman spoke to the BBC's News Hour about why she's protesting.
We don't have any kind of liberty here.
We fight every day.
We face the most brutal things every day.
We want to end it even with the price of our lives.
We don't have anything.
The trigger this time was the economy.