The #protest represented the first test of whether the Iranian public could be swayed by #CrownPrince #RezaPahlavi, whose fatally ill father fled #Iran just before the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. #Demonstrations have included cries in support of the #shah, something that could bring a death sentence in the past but now underlines the anger fueling the #protests that began over Iran’s ailing #economy.

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