Iran’s supreme leader promises to pardon ‘tens of thousands’

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• BEIRUT — Iran is set to pardon or reduce the sentences of “tens of thousands” of prisoners, including those swept up in the crackdown on protests that erupted in the country in September, state news reported on Sunday.
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• Iran’s judiciary head Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei proposed the amnesty and commutation in a letter to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state news agency IRNA said — but with caveats that may exclude many of those detained during the protests.

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