Iran’s counter-revolution gathers pace

Anti-government protests in Iran have gathered pace. Emily Hohler reports.

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The anti-government protests that erupted in Iran last Thursday started as a "narrow demonstration" over the rising price of eggs, says The Daily Telegraph. But they rapidly spiralled into the most serious challenge to Iran's clerical regime since 2009. So far, at least 22 people have been killed. This uprising is much larger and more widespread than the protests against electoral fraud a decade ago.It was driven by workers, not students, and is spreading across the country.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.