Iran parliament holds special meeting on protests

Iranian lawmakers held a closed-door session on Sunday to discuss the deadly protests that hit the country last week, while more pro-regime rallies were held in several cities. "The security officials confirmed that most of those arrested have been released," Gholamreza Heydari, a reformist lawmaker in Tehran, told parliament's ICANA website. Mohammad Reza Kachouie, another deputy, said most of those detained were unemployed people, "without university degrees".

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