They do love stressing “the economy” at the Beeb:
Iran’s supreme leader has for the first time publicly acknowledged that thousands of people were killed, “some in an inhuman, savage manner”, during recent protests.
A violent response to protests in Iran has claimed 3,090 lives, according to US-based Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), following unrest that started over the economy on 28 December. An internet blackout has made it extremely difficult to get clear information.
God forbid people should be rising up to overthrow a tyrannical Islamic regime that’s brutally suppressed its population, and spread terror across the Middle East for decades…
Mick Hartley 
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