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Welcome to Navar Live. I'm Michael Walker. I'm joined in the studio by Ash Sarkar. Great to have you in.

That restraining order couldn't keep me away for long, Michael.

That's the smear. I have never been convicted or anything like that. Coming up tonight, protests in Iran continue.

I'll be speaking to offer Arash Azizhi about what these events mean for the country.

Donald Trump is on a collision course with the US Federal Reserve.

People are accusing the left of not caring about Iranian protesters.

Me and Ash will be discussing that as well as,

I think, the hypocrisy from some of the people putting forward that charge. And a right-wing

moral panic has been debunked by reality. Wait to the show to find out which one. As ever,

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I'm straight into that first story. Widespread protests in Iran have now entered their 16th day.

And what began as a merchant strike in the capital Tehran in late

December has over the past fortnight spread across dozens of towns and cities throughout the country.

They've largely been clustered in big cities like Tehran as well as Isfahan, Shiraz and Mashad.

Despite a crackdown by government forces in recent days, the protests don't seem to be showing much sign of settling.

Though a communications blackout makes it difficult to verify reports from within the country,

there is lots of footage which has been confirmed. We know that on Sunday,

shops in a major bank in Tehran was set alight and plumes of black smoke were visible across the city's skyline as the protests entered their third day.

Under cover of darkness, protesters also blocked streets and diverted traffic in the capital while chanting anti-regime slogans.

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