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New rallies erupt in Iran as crackdown fears grow
Major Iranian cities were gripped overnight by new mass rallies denouncing the Islamic republic, as activists on Saturday (Jan 10) expressed fear authorities were intensifying their suppression of the demonstrations under cover of an internet blackout. The two weeks of protests have posed one of the biggest challenges to the theocratic authorities who have ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, although supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has expressed defiance and blamed the United States. Following the movement's largest protests yet on Thursday, new demonstrations took place late on Friday, according to ... (full story)