Leaked docs show young people leading fight against Iran government

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The Persian Constitutional Revolution in 1905 established Persia's first parliament under the Qajar dynasty, before the country was known as Iran.
52% : Balochistan, a historic region that intersects Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, has nationalist movements within all three countries.
49% : Demonstrators perched atop of the United States Embassy wall, burn an American flag, the fourth American flag to be burned since the students seized the embassy and more than 60 hostages November 4th in 1979Iran was on its way to constitutional reform when Russia and Britain divided the country in two after 1906, with the latter allowing the Kremlin free reign over the country in an effort to appease its regional competitor.
48% : Akef, a student from Tehran, crept up to the paramilitary base along with seven others in the dead of night and began dousing the steps of an Iranian Revolution Guard Corps office with petrol.
45% : Ansari sees the protests which began in 2022 as akin to those which led to democracy in Iran more than a hundred years ago.
40% : At least 470 demonstrators have been killed and more than 18,000 arrested since mid-September, according to human rights organisations -- with young people making up the brunt of those killed, as Iran starts its first public executions.
40% : She is facing the death penalty for the charge of blasphemy against Islamic sanctitiesIranian students chanting 'Freedom' as they rally at Tehran's University of Science and Culture.
39% : Renewed student protests came across Iran as the authoritarian government announced its first public executions, lashing back against the country's largest demonstrations since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, with residents threatening to overthrow the Islamic theocracy.
37% : Renewed student protests came as Iran announced its first public executions, with paramilitary guards slowly lifting a crane with a noose fastened around the neck of a prisoner condemned to death by hanging in a gruesome warning to its population on Monday.
36% : A majority of the people of Iran have objections, are unsatisfied.
35% : But Human Rights Activists in Iran, a US-based group, said more than 500 people have died since the death of Mahsa Amini sparked protests in dozens of cities across the country.
35% : 'Our leader is not Khamenei,' she said, adding: 'The actual leader of Iran is the people of Iran, and the only thing the people of Iran can say is that the Islamic Republic must be overthrown and must go.'
34% : Iran has been torn by the biggest wave of social unrest in almost three years, which has seen protesters, including university students and even young schoolgirls chant 'Woman, Life, Freedom''They feel that this is something quite different,' said St Andrews Professor Ali Ansari, the founding director of the Institute for Iranian.
32% : Cities across Iran have seen protests since 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini died on September 16

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