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Podcast: Newstalk Breakfast
Episode: The anti-government protests across Iran
Description: Iran has warned it will retaliate if attacked by the US, as reports from the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency suggest the number of people killed in anti-government protests across Iran has risen dramatically to more than 500 We discuss the situation there with  Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, Senior Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History University of St Andrews in Scotland.