The price of eggs in Iran went up 50%, and 21 people were killed in the protests that followed
pulse.ng Jan 2, 2018 6:17 PM

Prices well beyond double the normal helped crystallise dissatisfaction in Iran with the government, and has led to a spiral of violence and recrimination.

Protesters in the streets of Tehran, the Iranian capital, on 30 December, 2017. (AP)
Protests in Iran have become a major global issue and resulted in deaths.
They were catalysed by soaring egg prices, which have gone up 50% and in some cases doubled.
A harsh government response and general antipathy from the authorities caused the protests to grow.

Iran is currently being rocked by widespread protests throughout the country that have become the biggest geopolitical issue of the day, attracting the attention of the US President and most other major world powers.

As of Tuesday afternoon, at least 21 people had died and hundreds more were under arrest in the biggest unrest to affect the region in almost a decade.

There are plenty of reasons for Iranians to be unhappy. The economy is in poor shape, corruption is widespread, and they have lived for some forty years under a harsh and oppressive theocracy.

But one of the most significant factors being cited is a recent spike in the price of eggs.

According to Iran's Mehr news agency, egg prices last week were up 50%.

The English-language Financial Tribune newspaper had more detail, citing prices as high as 210,000 rial ($6.30) for a tray of 30 eggs, more than double the usual price. Other commodities are also more expensive.

Increases have been blamed on abnormally high animal feed costs, as well as an outbreak of avian flu which led to many millions of hens being culled.

The hike prompted demonstrations in the streets, beginning in the city of Mashhad before spreading to the capital, Tehran, and other urban and suburban areas.

This video, purportedly from Karaj, a city just outside Iran, shows parts of the city on fire against a background of weapons fire.

Protest is not common in Iran, which has a strong and pervasive security apparatus. As authorities began to respond, to block messaging technology and to arrest people, the protests worsened. Threats as severe as the death penalty were levied against demonstrators.

What an egg costs has no especial political symbolism in Iran, but was an obvious example of life getting worse, and the government's indifference.

Having recently re-elected moderate Hassan Rouhani, and seen their leaders sign the nuclear accord with the US and other economies in return for sanctions relief, Iranians may have hoped for economic improvement, rather than the opposite.

Eggs have ceased to be the central issue, as state authorities confirm a steadily rising count of dead which includes children and members of its own security services.

Video from inside the country shows police stations under siege, gunshots, and buildings set on fire.

People protesting in Tehran.
People protesting in Tehran. (Thomson Reuters)
Chanting protestors have voiced their dissatisfaction with the government more generally, and have also condemned Iranian authorities for spending money intervening in conflicts overseas.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has blamed foreign governments for stirring the unrest using their money and intelligence services.

Western powers including the United States condemned Iran's harsh response to protest, bringing the focus of the conflict firmly into the realm of international politics, rather than food and the economy.

But every protest movement starts somewhere, often for prosaic reasons — the Arab Spring of 2011 was triggered by the suicide of a Tunisian fruit seller whose roadside stall was seized by the government — and in Iran the trigger was unaffordable groceries.

http://www.pulse.ng/bi/politics/politics-the-price-of-eggs-in-iran-went-up-50-and-21-people-were-killed-in-the-protests-that-followed-id7794223.html

Una no get problem for dat country at all,for my area egg na 60cad now.

Crate of Egg went up over 250 percent in Nigeria under the current leadership

during the French revolution people reached the end point of their patience. when ordinary men were deprived of day to day necessities and prices of necessary goods were beyond their reach, that could not be considered a normal condition. "it was an anarchical situation".

the above was a major factor of the French revolution.

the same is happening in Iran ..

when would Nigerians get to the end point of their patience.

note that the protest in Iran could be CIA/mossad sponsored. since the Iranian revolution in the 70's that deposed the American stooge monarchy and ushered in the current Islamic/Democratic regime. the US and Israel have left no stone unturned to bring down Iran. from one sanction to another, until Obama lifted them few years back a deal trump has maintained he would overturn.

last year the Trump's administration appointed Micheal D' Andrea known as the dark prince to head the CIA Iran's operations. whose job is to pull down the Iranian regime, something the CIA has been trying to do for for almost 40 years.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/world/middleeast/cia-iran-dark-prince-michael-dandrea.html?referer=
one of the ways to pull down a govt is through sponsored or well crafted protest. just like how victor yanukovich was removed in Ukraine, but the US/NATO plan failed due to the pragmatic nature of Putin.

if this protest is truly genuine, then I am in support of the Iranian people, but if this is one of the US usual regime change game. then I pity the Iranians because they are better off being an independent nation, than being a Washington stooge.

note the Iranians have suffered under worse and hard conditions during excruciating sanctions but no protest, now sanctions have been lifted and the govt is trying to revive the Iranian economy, people suddenly remembers that the price of eggs are going high.

well let the Iranian people decide.

Meanwhile somewhere hia, an egg is 9rand

Una day protest cos of egg
Shay una chickens don go on strike ni.
Abi is there another type of egg ni

tashashiel:
Meanwhile somewhere hia, an egg is 9rand

That's about a dollar?

While in Nigeria, 100 millions mumus look on like donkeys. Too afraid to confront an Ancestor.

Fuel price was almost doubled yet no response, the idiot of a president is even contemplating increasing it further.

This government should tender an unreserved apology to Nigerians.

I still wonder the type of specie Nigerians are if an ordinary egg that chickens lay for free can trigger a protest how much more mechanical driven hike in price of a commodity that can be exhaustible in Nigeria (PMS)! What a country Nigeria is and people Nigerians are.