"A limited amnesty is to be offered to many of those detained in the recent Iranian protests, the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has agreed …

"The amnesty will not apply to those deemed to have cooperated with foreign agents, or those charged with committing acts of arson against government buildings. Those “affiliated with groups hostile to the Islamic Republic” will also be excluded, a catch-all that suggests the authorities may only be interested in releasing youngsters with minimal political motives, who can be portrayed as being swayed by emotion or foreign propaganda online …

"The amnesty came as two senior reformist politicians warned the government was facing a political dead end."

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/05/irans-supreme-leader-pardons-tens-of-thousands-of-prisoners