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As Iran’s biggest anti-government protests in years continue, Euronews quizzed economist Daron Acemogulu on how regimes like Tehran cope with uprisings. Acemogulu said Iran had responded to the protests — sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini after the country’s morality police arrested her for not wearing the hijab properly and sporting skinny jeans — with “overwhelming repression”. Is Iran a failed state?”I am not an expert on the history of Iran and certainly not one on the current politics of the Islamic Republic,” Acemogulu told Euronews. “But to me, it seems that Iran’s current regime ha…