'Death to Khamenei!': Iranians defy regime as protester faces execution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Women were the first to take to the streets, burning their headscarves -- which are mandatory for women in Iran -- and cutting their hair in solidarity.
48% : The official account of the opposition party reported that the chants were sung in the middle of the night, hours after midnight in Iran, and that protesters called this the year that Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei will be overthrown.
48% : Despite the crackdown, protests seem far from dying down, as the movement in Iran picks up support from abroad and from Iranian celebrities and public figures.
41% : In a video shared on Twitter by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the main Iranian opposition group, people in Tehran are seen chanting "Death to Khamenei," the country's supreme leader who's been in power since 1989.
29% : Amini was arrested in Tehran on September 13 by the country's so-called morality police for supposedly wearing an "improper" hijab.

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