Some fear a massive crackdown will soon follow.
Here in Southern California, hundreds of Iranian-Americans gathered Wednesday night in Westwood to rally for human rights.
"These protests are reflective of a 40-year struggle of Iranians to push back against a repressive political system, a system that affords them no voice, no opportunity," says Dr. Sanam Vakil, Mideast policy expert and Iran specialist at Chatham House in London."They want to feel, ordinary Iranians, that they're part of an international community, and they're fighting for very basic rights and decency and respect.
As more protests have erupted, Iran's intelligence ministry warned citizens against taking part, saying those caught at demonstrations would be prosecuted.
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