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Again, text PDB to 989-89-. It's Tuesday, the 30th of December. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right. Let's get briefed.

First up, pressure is building inside Iran, where a collapsing economy has driven protesters into the streets, and security forces are struggling

to contain the unrest.

I'll have the details.

Later in the show, North Korea has unveiled what it claims is its first nuclear-powered submarine,

a vessel equal in size, reportedly, to some of the U.S. Navy's attack subs.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

It's a story we've been watching closely here on the PDB, the simmering unrest inside Iran,

and based on internal reports and outside observers, it's beginning to look like that simmer may be starting to boil over.

Hmm, how's that for wordplay?

Over the past several days, protests have erupted across Iran,

spilling into major cities and commercial hubs, including Tehran itself.

Crowds have taken to the streets, shops have closed their doors, and security forces have responded with tear gas and batons and mass

deployments of security personnel onto the streets.

Videos circulating online show chaotic scenes, smoke hanging over city streets, protesters

scattering and regrouping and chanting slogans. They go well beyond simple economic grievances.

This isn't just another flash protest,

of which there have been many over the years, all of which have fizzled out in short order under the aggressive and brutal response from the Mullahs in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

Corps of the IRGC. What we're saying now appears broader, more coordinated, and more politically

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