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A long-time Enduring America reader writes:

I give you what I know. I today attended the protest in Esfahan. This was done on purpose cause I wanted to personally make sure there is protest in more than one city. Also because we used the cover of the 3-day vacation to demonstrate. So it worked.

There was a lot of people. My estimate is close to 3 to 4 thousand people, but only where I was, near Shams Abad. There was a lot of people near Tohid/Nazar square, also there was people near Char Bag and also Khajoo Bridge. It was strange compared to Tehran protests, but it was there and it was way bigger than I expected.

Esfahanis have funny slogans, and they were very very nice to me and my family, cause we looked like we were from out of town. asiji were early in the day hassling the young people, especially boys about their dress and hair. Anything to get under peoples skin early.

For what it is worth, I thought we would have 1 hour of protests before we were either arrested or gassed. It was going on for a good four hours and I say there was at least 10 to 15 thousand protesters all over the streets.