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It's been a long, cold winter for Iranians who fell for Khomeini's lofty promises of a better future 35 years ago.
International sanctions have exacerbated the pain of the middle class struggling with high levels of unemployment.

Iran has accused the British military of co-operating with bombers who killed eight people in southwest Iran, but Britain denies involvement.

A double bomb attack in the southwestern Iranian oil city of Ahvaz has left eight people dead.

Iranian police have defused a large bomb under a bridge in the tense southwestern city of Ahvaz, just days after a double bombing there killed six people and wounded more than 100.
At least 10 people have been killed and 83 injured by four huge blasts in Iran's southwestern city of Ahvaz and an explosion in the capital Tehran.

The days when Iranians in the south-eastern city of Ahvaz could spend a pleasant evening smoking their water pipes are numbered.

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