Iran protests continue despite heavy crackdowns - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "These words are hollow," said Hadi Ghaemi, director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, an independent organization based in New York.
51% : Shops and offices in Tehran remained open, and children attended school.
47% : Among those who have been arrested in the last two days are a soccer star, Hossein Mahini; and a performer, Shervin Hajipour, whose song about the difficulties of life in Iran has spread rapidly online.
45% : Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and one of Iran's most prominent reformist politicians, was arrested at a demonstration in Tehran this week, according to state media.
44% :Trying to deflate the protests, Iran has severely restricted and slowed down Internet access, hindering the ability of Iranians to communicate with one another and with the outside world.
44% : In Tehran, several residents said in telephone interviews that protests had scattered to the edges of the capital in smaller pockets.
34% : Elsewhere, women marched without hijabs in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, and protesters clashed with authorities in Qom, south of Tehran, and fled bullets fired by security forces in the southeastern city of Kerman, according to videos posted on social media.
32% : President Ebrahim Raisi, an ultraconservative cleric, addressed the unrest on television late Wednesday, accusing protesters of misusing Amini's death to destabilize Iran.

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