Iranian schoolgirls are removing their hijabs, shouting 'death to the dictator' and raising their middle fingers at the country's leaders

Posted on AllSides October 5th, 2022
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Iranian schoolgirls across the country are joining in on the latest wave of anti-government protests over its treatment of women.  

According to a BBC report, schoolgirls in Karaj, a suburb of Iran's capital city Tehran, took off their hijabs and flooded the streets in a show of solidarity with the movement.

In Saqez, near the country's western border with Iraq, schoolgirls took to the streets and chanted "death to the dictator," referring to the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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