Thousands of Iranian students protest violent crackdown since death of Mahsa Amini

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Thousands of Iranian students protest violent crackdown since death of Mahsa AminiDemonstrators call for release of detained students; chants of ‘death to the dictator’ as women wave scarves, rights group says more than 80 killed in unrestPARIS — Students demonstrated in Tehran and other Iranian cities Saturday against an ongoing crackdown on dissent over the death last month of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Islamic republic’s notorious morality police.A wave of street violence has rocked Iran since Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died after her arrest by the so-called “morality police” for allegedly failing to observe the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code for women.Video footage shared by the Oslo-based Iran Human Rights group also showed student protests in other cities, including second city Mashhad and Karaj, west of the capital.But on Saturday, the United Nations announced that Iranian-American Baquer Namazi, 85, a former UN official who had long been barred from leaving Iran, had been given permission to fly out for medical treatment while his son Siamak, 50, had been released from seven years in prison.On Wednesday, the Revolutionary Guards launched cross-border missile and drone strikes that killed 14 people including an American, in autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, accusing rebel groups in the region of fueling the unrest."

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