How expensive eggs helped kick off the biggest Iranian protests in years

Worldly

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News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 4 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On the first Worldly of 2018, Yochi, Jenn, and Zack talk about what the massive protests in Iran say about the future of the country — and about its tense relationship with the US. The protests have demonstrated a remarkable degree of public anger at both the country’s moderate president and its conservative theocratic government, and could give President Trump a new justification for canceling the landmark Iran nuclear deal later this month. On Elsewhere, they look at a new law in Iceland that makes it illegal for companies to pay their male employees more than they pay their female ones. Yochi rallies after a day home with sick toddlers, Zack shows off his deep knowledge of Icelandic feminism, and Jenn asks for a raise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Worldly.
0:07.0	W
0:08.1	The Vox's Weekly Guide to the Most Important Stories in the World,
0:12.1	part of the Vox Media
0:13.0	podcast network.
0:14.1	Zioli here with Jan and Zach. Happy New Year.
0:17.1	Happy New Year. Hey hello everybody.
0:18.9	2018 obviously starting in a much happier and better note all around the world than 2017 ended so
0:24.7	haza when we normally talk about Iran it's because of their nuclear program there's
0:29.1	support from militants across the Middle East it is usually not because of anything
0:32.2	like this.
0:33.0	You bad bad comedy!
0:36.0	So translate from the farcy that means death to Kamene, the country's supreme leader.
0:46.7	And that's from some of the massive crowds of protesters who've been cramming the streets
0:50.5	of Iran's biggest cities. So we're going to talk about where that anger comes from and why it's driven in part by the nuclear deal that President Trump wants to tear up.
0:58.0	So, Zach, you had a great piece on this on Box.com. What's going on? Why are they so angry?
1:02.8	So this started as far as we can tell from public slogans with something really, really boring
1:08.7	sounding. It's the price of eggs in Iran. The basic reason why is that the price of eggs came to
1:15.2	symbolize an economy that's been slow and full of unemployment with high levels
1:20.1	of inflation for a long period of time. The Rouhani government, President
1:24.6	Rouhani, Iran has both a Supreme Leader and a President. The President who
1:28.4	championed the nuclear deal was supposed to improve the economy and in some ways he
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