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Tonight, as she has every night since Iran's disputed election, Leyla
will walk up to the rooftop of her apartment building in Tehran and
join the collective shouts of "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great").
Her protest is not confined to the roof of her building. Leyla, who
has never been politically active before, has attended all the Tehran
street rallies to protest against the alleged fraudulent results of the
presidential election which saw Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad returned to power.
"I have gone every day and I have cried every day," she says.
The
protests initially saw hundreds of thousands take to the streets
demanding a recount. But as the violence has escalated and with the
security forces very visibly present in main squares and crossroads,
the protests have shrunk - some rallies this week numbered in the
hundreds, say witnesses.
"Of course I'm scared of being injured
or killed," she says. "When I water my plants these days I cannot help
crying because I feel how much I love to live. But I'm also fed up with
this feeling of fear that has penetrated my soul for three decades
under this regime."
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