Iran's President Hassan Rouhani calls for the release of unarmed and innocent people who were detained during protests against higher gasoline prices
DUBAI - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on Wednesday for the release of any unarmed and innocent people detained during two weeks of sometimes violent protests against gasoline price hikes.
Iranian Supreme Leader Aytollah Ali Khamenei, the highest authority in Iran, also said Islamic clemency should be shown, in comments cited by the official IRNA news agency on Wednesday. Tehran has given no official death toll, but Amnesty International said on Monday it had documented the deaths of at least 208 protesters, making the disturbances the bloodiest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The struggle of ordinary Iranians to make ends meet has become harder since last year when U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from Tehran’s nuclear deal with six world powers and reimposed sanctions that have further crippled Iran’s oil-based economy.“If America lifts the sanctions, we are ready to talk and negotiate, even at the level of heads of the 5+1 countries ,” Rouhani said.
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