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Iran’s supreme leader to pardon some detained anti-government protesters - The Guardian
Feb 05, 2023 1 min, 9 secs
Those “affiliated with groups hostile to the Islamic Republic” will also be excluded, a catch-all that suggests the authorities may only be interested in releasing youngsters with minimal political motives, who can be portrayed as being swayed by emotion or foreign propaganda online.

The conditional amnesty was proposed to the leader of the Islamic Republic by Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the head of the judiciary, and was presented as an act of reconciliation now that the street protests have been quashed.

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A more radical reform message had been issued on Saturday by Mir Hossein Mousavi, one of the leaders of the 2009 Green Movement, in which he called for a nationwide referendum and the changing of the constitution.

Mousavi, who has been under house arrest since 2011, said: “Iran and the Iranians need a fundamental change, that takes its main features from the pure movement of ‘ Woman, Life, Freedom ’.” Those three words were “the seeds of a bright future, free of oppression, poverty, humiliation and discrimination,” he said.

Opposition leaders remain convinced that sections of the security forces are acutely aware that the regime is being held together primarily by endless domestic repression as opposed to popular support and are starting to fear the personal consequences if an uprising takes place.

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