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The simmering tensions on campuses come as the Iranian government led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei faces threats of military action by the United States over the country’s nuclear program.
Amirhossein Saedi’s father had urged him to stay home. The protests sweeping Iran were growing more dangerous by the day, and the 19-year-old computer science student was still recovering from illness.
Videos geolocated at universities in Tehran show students chanting "bi sharaf," or "disgraceful" in Parsi, as clashes erupted against supporters of the government. View on euronews
Iranian doctors say that during last month's deadly crackdown on nationwide protests, security agents swarmed hospitals in multiple cities, hunting for wounded protesters.
You had plainclothes agents bursting into the hospital, into the emergency ward with AK-47s on their shoulders, threatening staff and admitted patients,” one doctor said.
Public tensions have surfaced between the exiled son of Iran’s last shah and a coalition of Kurdish Iran dissident groups in recent days. The frictions have highlighted cracks in the Iranian
Last month, an Iranian exile named Jaber Rajabi reached out to make a case for something between bombing Iran to oblivion and waiting for the regime to collapse.