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IN LATE June 2022, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the theocratic dictatorship in Iran, threatened those involved with the mass protest movement currently taking over the country that if they continued along this path then a fate of the kind witnessed in the 1980s would await them.
He was referring to a dark era in Iran’s history, when the then-nascent Islamic Republic regime started a wave of killings of opposition activists — during which all political parties and activities, other than those loyal to the regime, were outlawed and bloodily purged leading to thousands of executions. This was an era during which any expression of dissent, however mild, was answered with executions (even summary), brutal torture, lengthy imprisonment, and forced disappearances.
The mere reference to this era is often enough to bring terror to the hearts and minds of most ordinary Iranians.
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