Mideast uprisings spur new protests in Iran
CAIRO – Tens of thousands of protesters faced club-wielding security forces Monday in Bahrain, Yemen and Iran in what experts said may be shaping up as a pro-democracy wave ignited by the revolts that drove Egypt’s and Tunisia’s autocratic rulers from power. At least one protester was confirmed killed in Bahrain, and there were unconfirmed reports of several deaths and hundreds of arrests in Tehran, where anti-government marchers chanting “death to dictators” staged their largest demonstration in more than a year. The turnout in Iran, a non-Arab country, was especially surprising, given the executions and other harsh penalties meted out to people arrested in protests there after disputed…
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