Iran arrests suspects in ‘unforgivable’ plane disaster as protests persist – Reuters

Since the official admission, protesters, many of them students, have held daily demonstrations, chanting Clerics get lost! and calling for the removal of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in power for more than 30 years.

Police have responded to some protests with a violent crackdown, video posts on social media showed, with police beating protesters with batons, wounded people being carried, pools of blood on the streets and the sound of gunfire.

A video that emerged on Tuesday showed an officer using an electric baton to shock a man as he writhed on the ground.

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