What is happening in Iran right now?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% :"We are witnessing a nationwide reaction, really like a George Floyd moment for the national conscience that can no longer bear the violence and the logic of the ruling class in killing ordinary citizens," Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, told the New York Times.
39% : Protests in Iran have entered their 12th consecutive day as civilians take to the streets following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.
38% : British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained in Iran for six years, also filmed herself cutting her hair as a show of solidarity.
37% :Anger swept through Iran following Amini's death, with people risking everything and taking the streets as an act of defiance.
35% : "People in Iran are being cut off from online apps and services," Instagram chief Adam Mosseri tweeted, adding that "we hope their right to be online will be reinstated quickly".
33% : Mills, who specialises in Iran, said: "Amnesty International has recorded at least 30 people being killed, four of them children, but we believe the actual number is higher, given the horrific level of violence being perpetrated by the security forces.
31% : Amini was visiting family in Tehran, where she was arrested by Iran's Gasht-e Ershad ("Guidance Patrol") for allegedly wearing an inappropriate hijab.

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