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Blood on the streets Iranian who fled Karaj tells of brutal crackdown on protesters
Sulaimaniya, Iraq — Farzat never meant to be a taxi driver. While he was studying law in Tehran, he dabbled in politics. That’s when his troubles began, he told CNN. He was arrested and jailed four times over the last nine years, he said, and most recently was facing a charge of “contact with a hostile state.” He denied the charge, which carries a seven-year prison sentence. Because of his “criminal” record, the university expelled him, he explained. So, a taxi driver he became, plying the busy streets of Karaj, a city near Tehran and lately the site of intense…