Iran’s protesters have had enough after Mahsa Amini’s death
Al JazeeraThis week, protests in Iran, an investigation into the death of Shireen Abu Akleh and Lebanese bank heists. Iran’s rial going digital Cryptocurrencies have repeatedly gone boom and bust, but Iran still plans to launch what it’s calling a ‘digital rial’. Technically, it’s not a cryptocurrency – it’s highly centralised, an affront to crypto-traditionalists for sure – but Iran says the idea is that it would allow the country to move its fintech sector forward. In brief One man was killed during confrontations between Palestinian security forces and residents in Nablus – Tunisia’s former PM was detained in what critics are calling a crackdown on the opposition, before later being released – Israel appointed its first ambassador to Turkey since 2018, but Chile’s president snubbed Israel’s envoy there after a Palestinian teenager was killed in the occupied West Bank – Five people were killed in a reported Israeli air attack on Damascus airport – Egypt freed Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed al-Najdi, who had been detained since August 2020. “If Russia’s expansion is stopped, another nation is ready to spread its diplomatic influence.” Quote of the Week “I feel lost – like all Iraqi people.