Iranian rulers would rather sacrifice their people’s economic well-being to their mad pursuit of nuclear weapons. Tens of billions of dollars have gone into the nuclear program, money that was not available to spend on food and medicine subsidies, housing, education, and medical care.

Now protests are spreading again. They were prompted by the collapse on May 23 of a ten-story building in Abadan, which was widely seen as the result of corruption in the government, with well-connected builders getting away with lax safety standards. The protests have now spread from Abadan in Iran’s south to cities in central Iran, and the protesters have expanded their cries against corruption to include the most dangerous demand: “Death to Khomeini.”

As published by Hugh Fitzgerald/Front Page Mag