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Iran protests: the ripple effect

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Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, there's a big difference between what is happening in the rural areas and in urban areas. Sadly, I don't think it does because almost 90% of that country is starving. So when you're struggling to bring food on your table, I don’t think any sort of protest in anywhere in the world, which means anything to you Because your concerns are survival. There's this distinction in Afghanistan that we are deeply, deeply traditional society. And if I may define that tradition as a set of really regressive norms that have been there forever, and then they call it tradition, and then we are religious. It's always tradition kind of take precedent over religion, which

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