Protests rocking Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody have spread to at least 50 cities, even as police arrest and kill demonstrators in a violent crackdown.
The U.S. responded by condemning the Iranian government's actions, and"Mahsa Amini was a courageous woman whose death in Morality Police custody was yet another act of brutality by the Iranian regime's security forces against its own people," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement. The Treasury Department also said it imposed sanctions on several senior Iranian military commanders.
She described some of the police forces confronting the protestors as"so young," saying she and her fellow demonstrators would tell them,"why are you against us? Come and protest with us!"The situation is getting more dangerous by the day, Iranians who spoke to CNBC said. She described how"we get shamed by authorities and religious extremists" for showing too much hair and that"they take you to a reeducation center where you have to take a religion class by force, and if it's not your first time they jail you."A challenge to 'the entire project of political Islam'
The most significant of the anti-government uprisings in Iran over the last two decades was arguably Iran's"Green Movement" in 2009, where hundreds of thousands of Iranians, predominantly students, protested election results widely believed to be rigged.
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