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Women and the Revolutionary Struggle
After a mass rally over charges of election fraud, protesters defied orders from Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khumini. Some estimate millions of people participated in the protest of the Green Movement. Government forces cracked down hard, killing people on the street and arresting thousands. The regime was willing to go to great lengths to scale back reforms many people had fought hard to win.