Sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Calls for an End to Protest Crackdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% :Iran was already on Day 3 of a strike called by protesters.
42% : In a letter dated December 2022, Badri Hosseini Khamenei, who lives in Iran, went on to criticize the clerical establishment of the Islamic Republic from its founding to the present.
35% : A sister of Iran's supreme leader has condemned the crackdown on protesters in Iran and called on the Revolutionary Guard to stand down, according to a letter published by her son in France.
35% : On Wednesday, student protesters were in the streets across Iran as part of a wave of civil unrest triggered by the September death of an Iranian Kurdish woman who had been detained by the country's morality police.
21% :Iranian state media reported Thursday that Iran executed a person convicted of blocking a street and attacking a security force member in Tehran.

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