By: Nicholas Ballasy
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Opposition protesters in Iran are "very close to winning," former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton said Thursday at a Senate briefing in solidarity with the struggle against Iran's ruling theocracy, as Amnesty International released a new report detailing the regime's violent treatment of child detainees.
>>"Marking six months of the unprecedented popular uprising in Iran, sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, Amnesty International reveals the violence meted out to children arrested during and in the aftermath of protests," the human rights nonprofit announced in a press release. "The research exposes the torture methods that the Revolutionary Guards, the paramilitary Basij, the Public Security Police and other security and intelligence forces used against boys and girls in custody to punish and humiliate them and to extract forced 'confessions.'"
The regime is cracking down on protesters with violence because "once people are allowed to think for themselves, there's no way the regime can survive," said Bolton at the bipartisan Senate event in support of a democratic Iran held by the Organization of Iranian American Communities.
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