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Hundreds of demonstrators taking part in a third night of anti-government protests in Tehran called today for the execution of Iran’s conservative supreme leader – an audacious move under the country’s clerical regime, which has threatened a crackdown.

The pre-dawn protests constitute the biggest show of opposition to Iran’s clerics in months.

“Khamenei, the traitor, must be hanged,” the protesters chanted, referring Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The demonstrations took place around Tehran University and near the Intercontinental Hotel, in what constitutes the biggest show of opposition to Iran’s clerics in months.

Criticism of the ayatollah is punished by imprisonment, and public calls for his death were unheard of until this week.

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