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Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday reportedly ordered an amnesty or reduction in prison sentences for “tens of thousands” of people detained amid nationwide anti-government protests shaking the country, acknowledging for the first time the scale of the crackdown.
I'm not really sure why they claim that Iran is acknowledging for the first time that tens of thousands were imprisoned... It's been repeated multiple times. Going back at least two months... Really weird headline to extract from the pardons. 
It's like instead of acknowledging that they're pardoning the protesters, they tried to twist it into a claim that Iran is just finally admitting that people were jailed.
Either way, good news for the protestors.
When those being held by the "authorities" greatly outnumber their captors, and the punishments tend more towards death (and possibly torture) then it increasingly disincentivizes submitting peacefully to detention and/or arrest >

And as the regime keeps pushing it grows closer to critical mass. It has had success in the past in quelling these protests with brutality and the folks would back down. It appears that the people aren't letting off the gas this time. >

Big words! ‘Murica >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)


DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran's supreme leader on Sunday reportedly ordered an amnesty or reduction in prison sentences for "Tens of thousands" of people detained amid nationwide anti-government protests shaking the country, acknowledging for the first time the scale of the crackdown.
ADVERTISEMENT. The reports about the decree offered no explanation for the decision by Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state in Iran.
"Khamenei's hypocritical pardon doesn't change anything," wrote Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam of the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights.


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The pardon has too many “exceptions” >

Wow, so grateful the wise old man is letting the people go he himself detained. \s