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The government's response to the protests and its "brutal and disproportionate use of force against peaceful protesters and children" was widely condemned, [30] but Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the unrest as "riots" and part of a "hybrid war" against Iran created by foreign enemy states and dissidents abroad.
The 2021–2022 Iranian protests erupted on 15 July 2021 to protest the water shortages and crisis, but were quickly met with police violence and brutality."Bloody Aban", November 2021 saw further protests due to water shortages but various other protests and strikes also took place due to the worsening economic situation.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will deliver a Friday prayers sermon when he is expected to throw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards after their belated admission that they had ...
Iran's clerical rulers are clamping down on dissent ahead of the anniversary of the death of a young woman in morality police custody, fearing a revival of nationwide protests that rocked the ...
Sanctions by the United States and the European Union, coupled with economic mismanagement, were factors involved in a severe economic crisis in Iran in the 2010s. [38] Multiple protests and strikes took place in Iran in December 2017, [39] throughout 2018 [40] [41] and in the first half of 2019. [42]
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have put down unrest in the country’s Kurdish areas for decades and many Kurdish activists have been sentenced to long jail terms or death.
Iran has a history of protest movements, revolts, uprisings and revolutions. Protests first began with the 1963 demonstrations in Iran, then the outbreak of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, then the 20 June 1981 Iranian protests, then the Iran student protests, July 1999, the 2003 Iranian student protests, the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, 2011-2012 Iranian protests and more.
The 20 June 1981 Iranian protests, also known as the 30 Khordad protests, was a one-day anti–Islamic Republic protest organized by the People's Mujahedin of Iran on 20 June 1981 in various Iranian cities in response to the impeachment of the then president Abolhassan Banisadr.