Iranian cleric Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami delivers a sermon during the Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, November 22, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
DUBAI (Reuters) -Protests broke out in restive southeastern Iran on Friday, with demonstrators attacking banks, state media reported, as a senior hardline cleric called for tough measures against demonstrators across the country.
The Islamic Republic has been gripped by five weeks of demonstrations that erupted after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last month.
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