Lights out, then gunfire: Witnesses recount Mashhad protest crackdown

A 32-year-old protester in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, stood in the street as the lights flickered out and the mobile network went dead, believing he had only a one-in-five chance of making it out alive.
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