TEHRAN – Interior Ministry spokesman Salman Samani said on Monday that the majority of people who took part in recent protests across the country were not educated, and only a small number of students and university graduates took part in the protests.

Samani also said that most of those who took part in the protests did not have anti-security intentions and were released soon after, Mehr reported.

He added that the government’s response to the protests was not tough.
  
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