On Monday, Iran announced that the country’s Supreme Leader has pardoned 22,000 people arrested in the recent anti-government protests that swept the Islamic Republic. Media outlets reported that there was no immediate independent confirmation of the mass release. The statement by Iran’s judiciary head Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi offered for the first time a glance at the full extent to which the government’s crackdown went after the demonstrations.

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