Last week, we saw the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. Yesterday, there were protests in Tehran directed toward the regime in Iran. And today, in Bahrain, “More than 10,000 people streamed into the capital’s central Pearl Square on Tuesday in the largest political protest to hit this Persian Gulf kingdom in recent memory,” as the New York Times reports.

The protests in Bahrain have been steadily increasing — mainly because a protester was killed yesterday. At least one other protester was reportedly killed today.