Mahsa Amini protests
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Civil unrest and protests against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but by
Amir Kabir University uprising September 2022
Uprising in Tehran, Keshavarz Boulvard September 2022
Protests in Hamadan in September 2022
"Woman, life, freedom"; One of the main slogans of the protesters
Ali Khamenei
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Ali Hosseini Khamenei was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in 2026. A member of the Khamenei family who held the
Mahsa Amini protests
…protests and its "brutal and disproportionate use of force against peaceful protesters and children" was widely condemned, but Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei dismissed the unrest as "riots" and part of a "hybrid war" against Iran created by foreign enemy states and dissidents abroad. On 2 February 2024, the…
Khamenei in 2017
Khamenei as a teenager
Khamenei in 1962
Khamenei in a protest in 1970 in Mashhad