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Students protested in a third day of demonstrations, videos on social media showed, but were outnumbered by counter-demonstrators. / AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/12-1/GettyImages-899782060.jpg/GettyImages-899782060.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=AExg-gF1)
![Iranian students scuffle with police at the University of Tehran during a demonstration driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran on December 30, 2017.
Students protested in a third day of demonstrations, videos on social media showed, but were outnumbered by counter-demonstrators. / AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/12-1/GettyImages-899782060.jpg/GettyImages-899782060.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=AExg-gF1)
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![Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and Mohammad Nahavandian the Head of Iran Presidential Office (R) arrive for a meeting during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 22, 2014. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX17PZ0](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/02/RTX17PZ0.jpg/RTX17PZ0.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=RDswaSSu)
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![U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (L) shake hands, as EU envoy Catherine Ashton watches, before a meeting in Vienna November 20, 2014. Tehran has yet to explain away allegations it conducted atomic bomb research, the head of the U.N. nuclear agency said on Thursday, four days before a deadline for Iran and six world powers to reach a deal on the Iranian nuclear programme. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY) - RTR4EXYQ](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/01/RTR4EXYQ.jpg/RTR4EXYQ.jpg?h=e92c5d5c&itok=_72ukj_7)
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Mohammad Ali Shabani
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