Iran’s supreme leader has agreed to pardon “tens of thousands” of prisoners, including some of those detained for taking part in a wave of anti-regime protests that swept across the Islamic republic last year, state media reported on Sunday.
But Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s ultimate decision maker, agreed that those arrested for taking part in the unrest would only be pardoned or have their punishment reduced “if they did not commit espionage for the benefit of foreigners [and] did not have direct contact with agents of foreign intelligence services,” IRNA, the state news agency said.
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