Iranian protests are ‘beginning of the end for regime in Tehran’, says Nobel laureate Ebadi

JEDDAH: Protests in Iran over the custodial death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman are the beginning of an irreversible “revolutionary process” that will eventually lead to the downfall of the regime, one of Tehran’s most vocal critics said on Friday.

Shirin Ebadi, a prominent Iranian lawyer and former judge living in exile in London, said the protests were the boldest challenge yet to the legitimacy of Iran’s clerical establishment.