Iranian Protesters Mark 40 Days of Mourning for Mahsa Amini

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Stock-market traders in Tehran joined the strike on Wednesday for the first time, according to online videos.
41% :The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday announced new sanctions on Iran, targeting Iranian officials and entities over the crackdown on protesters.
36% : In the capital, Tehran, medical staff marched in front of the medical council, chanting, "Mullahs, get lost," according to online videos and a resident.
32% : Tehran views separatist Kurdish groups from the region as terrorists, and although these groups haven't been visible in the broader protest movement, the government has blamed them, and separatists groups in other provinces, for stirring unrest.
32% : A hard-line member of the Parliament's national security committee, Ebrahim Rezai, on Tuesday made a thinly veiled threat, saying that Iran had shaped battlefields outside the country and would continue to do so.
30% : The country's Revolutionary Guard in September fired more than 40 ballistic missiles into northern Iraq after blaming Iranian Kurdish separatists based there for fomenting the turmoil inside Iran.

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