Cost-of-living protests turn deadly in Iran

Protesters and security forces clashed in westernIranon Thursday, with three people reported killed, the first deaths since the cost-of-living demonstrations broke out.

Theprotests began on Sunday in Tehran, where shopkeepers went on strike over high prices and economic stagnation, and have since spread to other parts of the country.

On Thursday, the Fars news agency reported two civilians were killed in fr