Iran after the Public Protests; Safety Concerns for the Travelers
2019 marked itself with a chain of protests in France, Bolivia, Chile, Venezuela, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, and finally Iran. It was November 16 that public media broke the news of ongoing protests and turmoil in Iran triggered following a spike in the gas price. The protest went from gentle ways of signaling dissatisfaction like chanting against the government’s economic policies or blocking the highways to uncontrolled violence setting some banks and gas stations ablaze. Immediately, the government limited Internet access to prevent the protests getting viral.
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