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Iran
Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Mar. 14 –
Anti-government demonstrations erupted across the Iranian capital as well as
in towns and cities across the country as young people used the annual
Persian “fire festival” to ignite fireworks and set cars belonging to the
State Security Forces (SSF) on fire, dissidents told Iran Focus.
In the south-western city of Ahwaz
protestors constructed an effigy of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei and set it on fire.
Similar anti-government demonstrations by young people celebreating
the fire festival have been reported in Garmsar
(south-east of Tehran) and Rafsanjan
(southern) Iran.
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