'A time bomb': Anger rising in a hot spot of Iran protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% :People of all ages were present and began chanting slogans that would be repeated in cities across Iran: "Woman.
41% : THE BURIALThree weeks ago, the news of the death of 22-year old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police in Tehran spread rapidly across her home province of Kurdistan, of which Sanandaj is the capital.
41% : Spontaneous mass gatherings to persistent scattered demonstrations have unfolded in Iran, as nationwide protests over the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police enter their fourth week.
41% : Spontaneous mass gatherings to persistent scattered demonstrations have unfolded in Iran, as nationwide protests over the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police enter their fourth week.
40% : But when she heard the young woman had died in the custody of the morality police in Tehran and had been arrested for violating the Islamic Republic´s hijab rules, she felt compelled to take to the street that day.
40% : Spontaneous mass gatherings to persistent scattered demonstrations have unfolded elsewhere in Iran, as nationwide protests over the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police enter their fourth week.(AP Photo)
39% : Spontaneous mass gatherings to persistent scattered demonstrations have unfolded elsewhere in Iran, as nationwide protests over the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police enter their fourth week.
39% : Spontaneous mass gatherings to persistent scattered demonstrations have unfolded elsewhere in Iran, as nationwide protests over the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police enter their fourth week.
37% : Like most of Iran, Sanandaj has suffered as U.S. sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic devastated the economy and spurred inflation.
36% : (AP Photo/Hawre Khalid, Metrography, File)FILE - Protesters gather in Sulaimaniyah on Sept. 28, 2022, protest the killing of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police for wearing her headscarf improperly.
35% : The anti-government protests in Sanandaj, 300 miles (500 kilometers) from the capital, are a microcosm of the leaderless protests that have roiled Iran.
28% : There have been waves of protest in Iran in recent years, the largest in 2009 bringing large crowds into the streets after what protesters felt was a stolen election.
25% : FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, tear gas is fired by security to disperse protestors in front of the Tehran University, Iran.
25% : FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, women run away from anti-riot police during a protest of the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country's conservative dress code, in downtown Tehran, Iran.
22% : (AP Photo, File)FILE - Protesters gather outside the UN headquarters in Erbil on Sept. 24, 2022, to protest the death of Masha Amini, who had fallen into a coma for three days after being detained by the morality police in Tehran, Iran.
17% : In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a police motorcycle and a trash bin are burning during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the nation's morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran.

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