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'Today is last day of riots', Iran guards head warns protesters

By VOA | Oct. 29, 2022

**Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Gen Hossein Salami is seen delivering a speech, in Tehran, Iran, on Aug. 4, 2022.** [AP]

The head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards warned protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, in the clearest sign that security forces may intensify their fierce crackdown on nationwide unrest.

Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police last month, posing one of the boldest challenges to the clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.

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