Iran's bloody protests show regime is losing control — U.N. Envoy
"There is a certain amount of passion and a feeling that enough is enough insofar as the repression and brutality and violence against women and girls is concerned," he toldSarah, a 21-year-old from Mahabad, in Iran's West Azerbaijan Province, who did not give her last name, is among those agitating for change.
"It is a common goal for a common dream for the freedom of a great nation. We have been waiting for this uprising for several years and have planned for it. With all the risks that we have, we will continue this way until the overthrow of this mullah's regime." "We want the western and the U.S governments to stand by the Iranian people and to recognize the right of the people to resist and overthrow. Right now this regime has weakened and people are fed up with it," she added.
Strikes have been reported in schools, universities and the oil sector while demonstrations have also spread to European capitals with women cutting their hair to show solidarity.Iranian authorities say eight people were killed in the blaze, although the National Council of Resistance of Iran says the death toll was 60 and cited eyewitness accounts of how prisoners that evening had been chanting"Death to Khamenei" in support of the protests happening across the country.said that the U.
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