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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)referring to the enormous power Khamenei has given Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which, under Khamenei's direct control, has brutally repressed demonstrators, human rights activists, and opposition journalists
The government monitored meetings, movements, and communications of its citizens and often charged persons with crimes against national security and insulting the regime based on letters, e-mails, and other public and private communications.
During the year the government arrested students, journalists, lawyers, political activists, women's activists, artists, and members of religious minorities; charged many with crimes such as "propaganda against the system" and "insulting the supreme leader"; and treated such cases as national security trials (see sections 1.a. through 1.e.; section 6, Women; and section 7.a.).
Ali Khamenei [...] while ethnically Turkic is also half Yazdi, but he seems not to have inherited the timidity gene from his mother
referring to the enormous power Khamenei has given Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which, under Khamenei's direct control, has brutally repressed demonstrators, human rights activists, and opposition journalists
Khamenei has strengthened alliances with militant commanders, especially within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the hope that all opposition to his authority will continue to be suppressed — as it was during the protests of 2009
Ali Khamenei [...] while ethnically Turkic is also half Yazdi, but he seems not to have inherited the timidity gene from his mother
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