Three students from Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology are among those detained during the anti-government protests, ISNA reports quoting the head of the university.
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Iran releases 70 demonstrators after lawmakers discuss mass protests
Seventy people who participated in mass anti-government demonstrations in Iran have been released from detention hours after parliament held a special session on the protests that have swept the country since late December.
"This trend [of releases] should continue," excepting cases involving ringleaders and hooligans, the ISNA news agency quoted Tehran's public prosecutor, Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, as saying on January 7.
Jafari-Dolatabadi also warned of internal political power struggle. "That is exactly what our enemies were aiming for," he said. They wanted to exaggerate the differences between the political factions and create a "climate of distrust," he added, calling on Iranians to work together to stop the nation's enemies from reaching their goal.
Hardliners in Iran have put the blame for the demonstrations, which broke out at the end of December, squarely on foreign conspirators.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has echoed the sentiment, but also warned that not all the protests could be steered by foreign forces.