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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Iranians hold large rallies in defiance of warning by Revolutionary Guards head

A crowd of people holding placards sit in a building's large sunlit entrance hall
A vigil for Mahsa Amini taking place last week at the entrance hall of the Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology in in Tehran. Photograph: Social Media/Reuters

Thousands of Iranians have demonstrated in defiance of a final warning by the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) that he would bring protests to an end with unprecedented force.

Rallies were held on the streets on Sunday to protest against raids on student dormitories over the weekend in which students were taken away in buses to state detention. Some were sent text messages saying they were banned from campus indefinitely.

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