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Students Harshly Criticize Iran in Meeting with Supreme Leader
(Associated Press) Nasser Karimi - Iranian university students in a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday offered harsh criticism of the country's direction, in an unusually frank discussion. University student Sahar Mehrabi read a speech in which she recounted the "numerous crises" now facing the country. Among them, she listed Iran's "intensified systematic inequality in social classes, the decline of public trust, and the increase in environmental crisis and shantytowns." She also mentioned high unemployment, the challenges faced by minority groups and the way hard-line elements within Iran's judiciary and security system "fabricate security cases in a delusional way" to target activists. In his own speech, Khamenei acknowledged many of the shortcomings, saying that "removing problems is not as easy" as the students expect.