Protesters in Zahedan in southeast Iran, October 28, 2022
See also Iran’s Protests Surge on 40th Day of Mahsa Amini’s Death
“Nothing to Lose”: The Schoolgirls at the Forefront of Iran’s Hijab-Amini Protests
Iran’s Hijab Protests Challenge Legitimacy of A Weakened Regime
UPDATE 1423 GMT:
Protests continue at Iranian universities on Monday.
Tehran’s Beheshti University:
„Freiheit, Freiheit, Freiheit“ rufen die StudentInnen der Beheshti Universität in Teheran heute. Trotz Androhung vor hartem Durchgreifen, trotz Todesurteile, trotz Verhaftungen, trotz Suspendierungsgefahr von der Uni, trotz der Gefahr zu sterben….#IranRevolution2022 pic.twitter.com/bbAcCKm864
— Natalie Amiri (@NatalieAmiri) October 31, 2022
The School of Pharmacology at Rasht University in northern Iran:
دختر و پسر دست در دستهم در دانشکده داروسازی #رشت میخوانند pic.twitter.com/HjKoIch2QK
— VOA Farsi صدای آمریکا (@VOAfarsi) October 31, 2022
The Medical Faculty at Tabriz University:
اعتراضات سراسری؛ امروز دوشنبه ۹ آبان ۱۴۰۱، ویدیوهایی دیگر از تجمع دانشجویان دانشگاه علوم پزشکی #تبریز #اعتراضات_سراسری #اعتراض #تجمع #حقوق_بشر #مهسا_امینی #ژینا_امینی #دانشجویان #mahsaamini pic.twitter.com/PsgE1jc0TJ
— خبرگزاری هرانا (@hra_news) October 31, 2022
UPDATE 1417 GMT:
A scene from Sanandaj, the heart of more than six weeks of protests across Iran:
Incredible footage shows brave guards at the University of Kurdistan in Iran's Sanandaj trying to stop Khamenei regime gunmen from opening fire on protesting students, said to be yesterday October 30 pic.twitter.com/kcgJOrH8KX
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) October 31, 2022
And from Marivan:
Children protest in Iran’s Kurdish border city of Marivan leads to violent regime response, today 31 October pic.twitter.com/PCG2yv0r4m
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) October 31, 2022
UPDATE 1316 GMT:
Internal documents describe tools for Iranian officials to disrupt protests by manipulating mobile phone communications.
The documents, given to The Intercept, detail the SIAM web program used by the Iranian Communications Regulatory Authority. The program has a menu of remote commands which can slow data connections to a crawl; break the encryption of calls; track the movements of individuals or groups; and produce detailed metadata summaries of who spoke to whom, when, and where.
All Iranian telecom operators must give direct access to their systems to the Communications Regulatory Authority.
UPDATE 0833 GMT:
More than 300 Iranian journalists have called for the release of colleagues Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, imprisoned for their coverage of Mahsa Amini’s death and funeral.
The appeal was made in a statement published by Etemad and other newspapers on Sunday.
Hamedi took a photo of Amini’s parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital as their daughter lay in a coma after her detention and reported beating by “morality police”.
Mohammadi covered Amini’s funeral in her hometown Saqqez in Iranian Kurdistan, where protests began.
On Friday, a joint statement by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence organization attacked Hamedi and Mohammadi — without evidence — of being CIA agents.
Iranian authorities have detained more than 40 journalists during the protests.
UPDATE 0824 GMT:
Following the declaration of the Revolutionary Guards’ commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami of Saturday as “the last day” of protests, another senior Guards officer has issued a warning to demonstrators.
The Guards heads in Khorasan Province in northeast Iran, Brig. Gen. Mohammadreza Mahdavi, declared:
So far, Basijis [militia] have shown restraint and they have been patient.
“But it will get out of our control if the situation continues.
Human rights organizations say 283 protesters, including 44 children, have been slain by security forces. More than 14,000 people have been arrested, including 253 students, in protests across 132 cities and towns and 122 universities.
UPDATE 0819 GMT:
The European Union is considering classification of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in a televised interview Sunday, “I made it clear last week that we will launch another package of sanctions, that we will examine how we can also list the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization.”
UPDATE, OCT 31:
The Guardian has published an interactive map and videos of the spread of protests across Iran from September 16 to October 20.
UPDATE 2117 GMT:
Security forces have reportedly abducted Professor Dariush Farhoud, the 85-year-old father of genetics in Iran.
Farhoud was taken from his home on Sunday morning. He had criticized the regime for its violation of women’s rights.
UPDATE 1703 GMT:
Basij militiamen fire at students at a university in northern Tehran:
تصاویری از تیراندازی مستقیم و حمله بسیجیها به دانشجویان معترض منتشر شده.
این تصاویر را به زبانهای دیگر ترجمه کنید تا دنیا ببیند
پاسخ دانشجوی معترض با دستان خالی، تیر مستقیم در محیط دانشگاه است.
#یاری_مدنی_توانا #مهسا_امینی #اعتراضات_سراسری #دانشگاه pic.twitter.com/oiIuQG36Rp— توانا Tavaana (@Tavaana) October 30, 2022
Women at Azad University in Qazvin cut off their hair and remember Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody, and teenager Nika Shahkarami, killed by security forces: “We don’t want classes, we want Mahsa and Nika!”
Khayyam University in Mashhad:
Khayyam Universität, Mashhad. 30. Oktober. #IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/TKUvXGFNKF
— Shoura Hashemi (@ShouraHashemi) October 30, 2022
UPDATE 1658 GMT:
Students at the Medicine Faculty of Hormozgan University in southern Iran take down the wall separating men and women in the canteen.
Studierende zerstören die Wand in der Mensa, die die Geschlechter voneinander trennt. Medizinische Fakultät, Hormozgan. 30. Oktober. Sie rufen dabei „Freiheit“. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/iNqUvIc19s
— Shoura Hashemi (@ShouraHashemi) October 30, 2022
UPDATE 1653 GMT:
The scene at Sanandaj University in Iranian Kurdistan, the center of national protests over the past 45 days.
Protests continue… Hundreds of students at Sanandaj University chant, “Woman, Life, Freedom.” Students have defied the IRGC’s ultimatum to go back home. Sanandaj is the capital of Kurdistan Province in Iran. #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/5TjFuNEd05
— Omid Memarian (@Omid_M) October 30, 2022
At Tehran University, chants of “Death to the Dictator”:
Ein Tag nachdem der Chef der Revolutionsgarde hartes Vorgehen gegen DemonstrantInnen angedroht hat, sind sie trotzdem wieder gekommen. Heute an mehreren Universitäten im #Iran Proteste gegen das Regime, hier freie Uni Teheran. Sie rufen: Tod d Diktator! #IranProtests2022 pic.twitter.com/UePVZmy4mH
— Natalie Amiri (@NatalieAmiri) October 30, 2022
UPDATE 1646 GMT:
Iranian authorities have arrested rapper and activist Toomaj Salehi, a prominent supporter of protests through his music and social media posts. He had asked officials to release political prisoners.
Salehi’s cousin said the rapper and his friends were seized by up to 50 agents in the Gerd-Bisheh area in Chahrmahal and Bakhtyari Province in southwestern Iran.
UPDATE 0910 GMT:
University students challenge men trying to break up a mixed-gender gathering.
Iran regime toadies attempted to pour water on students having mixed gender lunch after being barred from using canteen at Tehran Science and Industry University. One student confronted them, then they got swarmed. Today 30 October pic.twitter.com/KyxgNa7PPM
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) October 30, 2022
UPDATE 0902 GMT:
According to an Iranian Government document, obtained by IranWire, at least 175,000 people participated in protests from September 16 to mid-October.
The average age of those arrested by police is 17. About 2,000 demonstrators were detained and 1,700 released by mid-October. About 90% were in police custody for the first time.
Most said they protested to “overthrow” the Islamic Republic: “We have nothing to lose.”
UPDATE 0837 GMT:
The family of 19-year-old chef Mehrdad Shahidi says they are being pressured to deny he was beaten to death in detention.
The killing of Shahidi by Iranian security forces on Wednesday sparked further protests in Arak in western Iran.
The teenager had skull injuries. His parents said, “Our son lost his life as a result of receiving baton blows to his head after his arrest, but we have been under pressure by the regime to say that he died of a heart attack.”
Shahidi had built up a following of 25,000 on Instagram with videos of his cooking.
UPDATE 0727 GMT:
With students prominent in nationwide protests, President Ebrahim Raisi has told university presidents:
The most important precondition for such dialogues is the correct understanding of issues. If the issues are not analyzed well, they will be affected by the atmosphere created by the media and the cyberspace, leading to error.
UPDATE, OCT 30:
Protesters across Iran have defied the regime’s declaration that Saturday “is the last day” of the demonstrations over compulsory hijab and the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody.
In Tehran:
On the day the head of IRGC threatened people to return home, they gathered at the City Theatre metro station in Tehran and chanted: “Khamenei is a murderer; his rule is invalid.” #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #IranProtests #IranRevolution2022 pic.twitter.com/SxSNgxCcx8
— Omid Memarian (@Omid_M) October 29, 2022
In Tehran metro, they chant,“Khamenei is lame! He’s the murderer of Shahcheragh!” in reference to alleged attack on Shiraz shrine. No one buys regime narrative on ISIS attack pic.twitter.com/8y3WqJMlEl
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) October 29, 2022
Students at the University of Tehran face off against the Basij. #MahsaAmini #Iran pic.twitter.com/CJfQc2v3QK
— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) October 29, 2022
In Arak in western Iran:
Meanwhile, a massive crowd of mourners gathered in Arak today for the burial of Mehrshad Shahidi, a 19-year-old chef who is said to have been "beaten to death" by security forces.pic.twitter.com/zxt4eSx6pBpic.twitter.com/lcE4C9Vpz9
— Kian Sharifi (@KianSharifi) October 29, 2022
At a university in Karaj near Tehran:
«جمیعت تموم نشدنی دانشجویان خوارزمی واحد کرج ۷ آبان» #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/v42uk80wZN
— مملکته (@mamlekate) October 29, 2022
UPDATE 1227 GMT:
Scenes from Iranian universities on Saturday:
Medical university students in southwest city of Ahvaz confront regime enforcers pic.twitter.com/4qlCadk6u3
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) October 29, 2022
UPDATE 1214 GMT:
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence department have issued a statement targeting detained journalists Niloufar Hamidi and Elahe Mohammadi as “foreign agents”.
Hamidi published the photo of the comatose Mahsa Amini, whose death in police custody triggered nationwide protests.
The Iranian agencies declared that Hamidi is “among the people trained in special courses abroad”: “Using the cover of a journalist, she was one of the first people who arrived at the hospital and provoked the relatives of the deceased and published targeted news.”
They assailed Mohammadi as being “trained by the American mafia regime in foreign countries”: “She instantly attended the funeral ceremony of Mahsa Amini in her birthplace Saqqez to provoke her relatives by circulating the news and images of the funeral ceremony, and burial.”
The statement gave no evidences for its allegations.
Very worrying ! Iran has accused journalists, Niloufar Hamedi & Elaheh Mohammadi of being trained U.S. agents. Hamedi was among the first to report on #Mahsamini’ s hospitalization & Mohammadi covered Amini’s funeral. They did their job. #journalismisnotacrime pic.twitter.com/LbhQ1xk4ii
— Golnaz Esfandiari (@GEsfandiari) October 29, 2022
UPDATE 1157 GMT:
Kurdish human rights group Hengaw says Iranian security forces shot at students at a girl’s school in Saqqez in Iranian Kurdistan.
The group said security personnel also opened fire on students at the Kurdistan University of Medical Science, in the provincial capital of Sanandaj. Several students were injured, one of them shot in the head.
The head of the Revolutionary Guards, Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, blustered on Saturday, “Do not come to the streets! Today is the last day of the riots. This sinister plan, is a plan hatched…in the White House and the Zionist regime.
UPDATE 1026 GMT:
Baton-wielding Basiji militiamen chase people on Friday night:
Swarms of club-wielding Basiji thugs attack unarmed protesters in Borujerd, southwest Iran last night pic.twitter.com/fxFZ1fEvuS
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) October 29, 2022
UPDATE 1021 GMT:
The Human Rights Activists News Agency reports that at least 272 Iranians, including 39 children, have been killed by security forces during nationwide protests.
Almost 14,000 people have been detained, with protests in 139 cities and towns.
Iranian officials say 34 security personnel have been slain.
UPDATE 1002 GMT:
Protests continue across Iranian Kurdistan in the northwest of the country, despite deadly repression by security forces.
Among the locations on Friday was Mahabad, where at least four people have been killed this week.
Protests and fiery clashes across Iranian Kurdistan today, including Mahabad and border cities of Qasr Shirin and Baneh pic.twitter.com/nUScozLePE
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) October 28, 2022
UPDATE 0954 GMT:
The UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has criticized Iranian officials over mass detentions and abuse of the relatives of slain demonstrators.
“We’ve seen a lot of ill treatment…but also harassment of the families of protesters,” spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva.
Iranian authorities have warned families not to speak out, and have refused to return the bodies of victims.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric added, “We condemn all incidents that have resulted in death or serious injury to protesters and reiterate that security forces must avoid all unnecessary or disproportionate use of force against peaceful protesters.”
He added, “Those responsible must be held to account.”
ORIGINAL ENTRY: Iran’s security forces have again slain protesters in Zahedan in the southeast of the country, four weeks after killing at least 66 worshippers and demonstrators.
The forces again opened fire after Friday prayers. At least seven people, including a 12-year-old boy, were reportedly killed.
Friday’s demonstrations were part of the nationwide protests entering a seventh week over compulsory hijab and the death of Mahsa Amini in custody after she was seized by “morality police”.
The protests in Zahedan, in Sistan and Baluchestan Province on the border with Pakistan, have also been fed by anger at discrimination against the Baluch and Sunni communities and abuses by local agencies. Another catalyst was the accusation that a senior Revolutionary Guard official raped a local woman.
“They are hitting the people with the bullets of war,” said one man amid the violence of the security forces on Friday. Another held up a handful of spent assault-rifle shell casings.
Shir-Ahmed Shirani, editor of the ethnic Baluch human rights website Halvash, said the seven victims included two children. At least 50 other people were injured but had been barred by security forces from entering hospitals.
“As soon as the worshippers left the mosque, the gunmen opened fire,” he said.
Horrific scenes as Islamic regime gunmen open fire on protesters in Iranian city of Zahedan, perpetrating second massacre of people in small city in less than a month pic.twitter.com/ea7Gyg5w7j
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) October 28, 2022
“Officials Are Not Listening”
Molavi Abdolhamid, the city’s Friday Prayers leader and the senior Sunni cleric in Iran, has said the Supreme Leader and other officials were “responsible before God” for the repression of protests and the killings. He declared on Monday:
One positive thing that we can take from the events is that many people have shed their fears.
Unfortunately, officials are not listening. For 43 years we’ve been shouting for the [rights of] Sunnis and the Baluch who are the owners of this land and have been defending the area.
On Thursday, provincial authorities suddenly fired Zahedan’s chief of police and another senior officer due to “deficiencies” that led to the violence on September 30. They admitted that police had been responsible for the deaths of up to 35 people, including some leaving Friday prayers.
But authorities deployed more security personnel to Zahedan this week, hoping to contain the protests. Pro-regime clerics assailed Abdolhamid, prompting tribal elders to gather on Thursday night at Zahedan’s Makki Mosque to show support for their Friday Prayers leader.
As usual, regime media blamed “rioters” after Friday’s killings.
Iranian minister Rostam Qasemi called out over holiday images with unveiled girlified in Malaysia
https://www.firstpost.com/world/iranian-minister-rostam-qasemi-called-out-over-holiday-images-with-unveiled-girlified-in-malaysia-11546901.html
You know, Mahsa Amini’s hair was showing, and she had to die for it. But this hyena and his girlfriend can prance around how they wish. What islam, what “our shohada died for hijab”, what that tradition, what islamic value….
Iran inernational has an expose of it I’ll post it later….
Here is the video:
https://youtu.be/SvSK2XosN8Q
There is also a long trail of corruption with this girlfriend and now his wife that is important on its own, but the focus here is on hypocrisy of it…
Vandalism by iri security forces….
https://twitter.com/MKeshtdar/status/1587023538103394304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1587023538103394304%7Ctwgr%5E7341f6a6f65bde1f6ef9a082fe2c042b543a2018%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiofarda.com%2Fa%2F32042577.html
The mullah state says not a single world cup participants are going to iran…..
https://www.radiofarda.com/a/iran-qatar-football-team-no-booking/32109067.html
Oh, you mean foreigners don’t take a shine on your hostage taking practices
Qalibaf extends an olive branch to protesters: https://www.euronews.com/2022/10/31/iran-women
““We consider the protests to be not only correct and the cause of progress, but we also believe that these social movements will change policies and decisions, provided that they are separated from violent people, criminals and separatists.”
He met with prominent students today: https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1401/08/09/2796894
That is where students are, sitting in protests, non violent:
https://www.radiofarda.com/a/32042577.html
[Editor’s Note: The latest propaganda line from an Iranian State outlet….]
Iran unites to condemn terrorism/extremism: https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/478086/Iran-unites-to-condemn-terrorism-in-Shiraz
“Following a devastating attack in Shiraz on Wednesday evening claimed by Daesh, Iranians from all walks of life poured onto the streets on Friday to condemn this vicious act of terrorism and express their solidarity with the martyrs and reiterate their support for national unity. Iran’s top intelligence bodies issued a joint statement on Friday pointing to the major role of foreign spy agencies, especially the CIA, in orchestrating the violent riots in Iran over the past weeks.”
The US, UK, Israel and Saudi Arabia have encouraged the protests turned violent riots in which around 40 security officers have been killed. They have done this through their state-backed Persian language media channels, (VOA, BBC Farsi, RFERL, Manoto, Iran Intl), by enlisting and training activists and journalists through the NED program, through collaboration with hackers like the “Anonymous Group” that have launched cyberattacks against Iranian domestic media and government agencies, and through openly supporting the unrest on Twitter. The US is also trying to provide satellite internet to Iran to enable rioters to communicate more easily with each other. The CIA maintains links with terrorist groups like the Kurdish organization, PJAK, and the Baluchi organization, Jaish-ul-Adl: https://www.institutkurde.org/en/info/germany-concerned-about-pjak-activities-1208441132.html
“Robert Baer, a former CIA operative who worked for many years in northern Iraq and who retains strong ties to the Kurdish political scene, told SPIEGEL: “I understand that the US provides intelligence to PJAK so that they are better able to protect themselves in any conflict with the Iranians. This force protection intelligence is given to them through the Delta Forces.”
Iranian Students Launch Sit-In After Violent Clashes With Security Forces Over Weekend
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-students-sit-in-protest-clashes-security-forces/32108830.html
[Editor’s Note: A strange commentary by Dabashi, whose concern is with opinion in the US and not with the situation in Iran.
The New York Times editorial does not mention a “regime-change enthusiast”, let alone “take its cues” from this supposed person.
In the New Yorker profile of Iranian human rights activist Masih Alinejad, she does not portray herself as the “leader” of the protests. Indeed, she explicitly says it is the women of Iran who are leading.]
Interesting article by Hamid Dabashi, a prominent Green Movement supporter: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-iran-misread-social-uprisings-muslim-world
“It is no accident that a recent New York Times editorial, headlined “How the US can help support the women of Iran calling for change”, takes almost all of its cues from a regime-change enthusiast committed to dismantling the ruling Islamist regime. Equally ridiculous is the recent misguided piece on the Iran protests published by the New Yorker, where the subject of the piece has sold herself as the leader of the current uprising. It is therefore quite natural that despite its legitimate roots and aspirations, the uprising is seen so suspiciously by many progressive forces around the world.”
[Editor’s note: This is a misleading description. Friday’s gathering in Qom was specifically to denounce the attack on the mosque in Shiraz — see https://en.abna24.com/story/1318286.%5D
Huge rallies held in the holy city of Qom to denounce rioters and extremists: https://www.mehrnews.com/photo/5619063
“According to an Iranian Government document, obtained by IranWire, at least 175,000 people participated in protests from September 16 to mid-October.”
That would be much higher than the figure initially released by the authorities of 45,000 (a couple of weeks ago) and greater than other estimates.
[Editor’s Note: The protesters were not saying that the regime carried out the attack on the Shiraz shrine, but that the Supreme Leader created the instability and repression in Iran which fostered such an attack.
And again, the commenter is misleading the gatherings — which are about the victims of the Shiraz attack — as being about the protests in general.]
“In Tehran metro, they chant, “Khamenei is lame! He’s the murderer of Shahcheragh!” in reference to alleged attack on Shiraz shrine. No one buys regime narrative on ISIS attack”
That just shows how delusional the “protesters” (and Daraghi) are if they are if they think it was a false flag operation . But I predicted that this would be the case. As for “no one” believing ISIS’ own admission, here are photos from Mashhad yesterday showing huge crowds denouncing the violence and opportunism of the unrest:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgS11msXEAEl8dM?format=jpg&name=medium
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgS10tqXgAIVcrO?format=jpg&name=medium
[Editor’s Note: A misunderstanding by commenter of his own link — Iran International is not making the claim but *reporting* that some Iranians believe regime is behind attack.]
No, Scott. Borzou Daraghi, the BBC and Iran Intl are all alleging that the government carried out the attack on the shrine to distract attention and garner sympathy: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202210277537
“Many Iranians, however, have accused the regime of being behind the attack or orchestrating it to blame protesters at home for causing unrest and insecurity and justify harsher crackdown on protesters.”
[Editor’s Note: The 1st image came out well after the regime-organized demonstrations took place. There is no verification that it is from those demonstrations.]
Demonstration in Tehran yesterday: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgLE_EsXwAEuVZS?format=jpg&name=900×900
Clearly, more than “hundreds” in just one location alone.
Funeral demonstration in Shiraz yesterday: https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/mourners-take-part-in-a-funeral-for-victims-of-a-mass-shooting-at-a-picture-id1244309327?s=2048×2048
Clearly, more than “hundreds” in just one location alone.
Meanwhile, 37 security officers have been killed (updated this might now be 40) since the protests began: https://twitter.com/Alfoneh/status/1585955086479462400/photo/1
[Editor’s Note: The State outlet Tehran Times repeats the regime’s line on the death of Mahsa Amini, after a reported beating by “morality police”, in police custody.]
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/477756/Mahsa-story-Reality-vs-disinformation
“Why did Mahsa Amini die? Was her death really due to police brutality? A CT scan of Mahsa Amin’s brain and lungs, physical examination of the corpse and autopsy, and pathological tests show that her death was not due to head trauma or blow to vital organs. The report by the Forensic Medicine Organization stated: Amini underwent craniopharyngioma surgery at the age of eight, which led to eruption of disorders in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, and the deceased was using hydrocortisone, levothyroxine, and desmopressin as medicine.”
[Editor’s Note: The killing of at least seven innocent people, as well as the wounding of more than 50, is a “mass killing” — and this commenter adds the egregious claim that someone other than security forces carried out the murders.]
“There are reports the shooting in Zahedan killed at least six people, including a 12-year-old boy, threatening to ignite further tensions.” https://www.euronews.com/2022/10/29/iranian-security-forces-shot-at-protesters-in-zahedan-activists-say
That’s hardly a “mass killing”. The footage shown of the incident also does not reveal who was doing the shooting: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/29/iran-protests-mahsa-amini-hossein-salami-last-day
Hezbollah chief says armed group’s mobilization to end
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollah-chief-says-armed-groups-mobilization-end-2022-10-27/
As we say in farsi “seyed ali moond va zhozesh”(khamenei is left by himself)
Iran’s IRGC Chief Warns Protesters As UN Expresses Concern About Deaths
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-united-nations-protests-clashes-concern/32106519.html
And this is the very same irgc commander that in an official ceremony introduced the first (in the world) modified kitchen pot lid invented in islamic republic that could “detect covid virus from 200 meters away…”.
https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iranians-make-fun-of-coronavirus-detection-device-promoted-by-revolutionary-guard-/30723690.html
You don’t believe me….??
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2020/04/iran-coronavirus-detection-device-irgc-rouhani.html
No more “protests” will be allowed after today. There will be zero tolerance of any form of gatherings/rallies. That’s my government’s position.