Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday, along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions? Sign up for the Today’s WorldView newsletter . On Monday, Iran remained an offline nation . A startling weekend of protests gripped the country after its theocratic regime issued an edict Friday cutting fuel subsidies and raising the cost of gasoline. The measures incensed many ordinary Iranians, who have for months felt the bite of U.S.-imposed sanctions on the country’s enfeebled economy. The dramatic scenes of unrest prompted Iranian authorities to effectively switch off the Internet. Protests and demonstrations took place in some 100 cities and towns in Iran, an astonishing development that comes on the heels of mass protests elsewhere in the Middle East . At least 100 banks and 57 shops were set on fire, and about 1,000 people were arrested, noted the semiofficial Fars […]