relatively moderate former President Hassan Rouhani, who said in January that the election watchdog disqualified him from running for reelection for the assembly.
Iran starts first election campaign since the 2022 mass protests over Mahsa Amini's death in custody
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“Destroying the prestige of the universities and their professors ... is a loss for the students, science and the country,” Rouhani said, according to a report by the online news site Jamaran.
In Iran, snap checkpoints and university purges mark the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini protests
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