Iranian police clash with protesters over currency plunge




 
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Iranian police clash with protesters over currency plunge
 
October 4th, 2012  
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Iranian police clash with protesters over currency plunge
DUBAI (Reuters) - Riot police clashed with demonstrators and arrested money changers in Tehran on Wednesday in disturbances over the collapse of the Iranian currency, which has lost 40 percent of its value against the dollar in a week, witnesses said. Police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, angered by the plunge in the value of the rial. Protesters denounced President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a "traitor" whose policies had fuelled the crisis. ...

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