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Iran has accused "foreign enemies" of protests that have engulfed the country following the death of a woman in police custody, but on Friday nine Europeans questioned their role in the riots. He said he arrested a person.
The detention of citizens from Germany, Poland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and others is likely to increase tensions between Iran and the West over the death of Mercer Amini.
Escalation occurs when more victims are reported. Nineteen people were killed after security forces opened fire on armed protesters who were attacking a police station, officials said.
Tehran responded to international condemnation of the incident by lashing out at its critics, accusing the United States of using unrest to destabilize Iran. In a statement shared by Iranian media, the Ministry of Information said in a statement that nine unidentified people had been arrested "during the unrest or during the conspiracy behind them."
Amini, 22, from Iran's Kurdish city of Saqez, was arrested this month in Tehran for "improperly dressed" by deputy forces enforcing the Islamic Republic's strict dress code for women.
Her death sparked the first large-scale protests on Iran's streets since authorities cracked down on protests over rising fuel prices in 2019. The demonstrations quickly turned into popular uprisings against the clergy. rice field.
Demonstrations spread from her hometown of Amini to all of her 31 provinces in Iran and were attended by all strata of society, including ethnic and religious minorities. Fearing an ethnic uprising and in a show of force, Iran this week launched missiles and drones toward targets in neighboring Kurdish areas of northern Iraq after accusing Iran's Kurdish dissidents of being involved in the riots. fired.
Western human rights groups say Iran, which is predominantly Shiite Persian, discriminates against ethnic and religious minorities. Tehran denies this.
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Analysts don't expect Iran's clerical rulers to fall, but they're being defensive and struggling to find strategies to quell their anger.
Human rights groups said dozens of activists, students and artists had been arrested, and the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Twitter that it learned security forces had arrested at least 28 journalists by September. 29
A senior Iranian cleric called for a crackdown on the demonstrators.
"Our security is a veritable privilege. The people of Iran demand the most severe punishment for these barbaric mobs," said Mohammad Javad Haji, leader of a prayer in Tehran on Friday. Ali Akbari said.
In some videos, heavy gunfire was heard as protesters yelled "dead Khamenei", referring to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Human rights group Hengaw released a video late Friday showing protests in his Amini's hometown of Saqez. Young women waved their headscarves in protest against Iran's hijab rules and cheered as they took off.
The activist's Twitter account, 1500tasvir, which has more than 150,000 followers, posted a video of a protest in the southwestern oil town of Abadan, with protesters chanting "priests must go." Other videos allegedly show protests in Karaj, in western Tehran, and Isfahan, in central Iran. Reuters was unable to verify the footage.
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State television said an "unidentified gunman" opened fire on a police station in the southeastern city of Zahedan, prompting security forces to resume firing. Nineteen of his people, including security forces, have died, the governor told state television. 20 were injured.
State media reported that the intelligence chief of the province of Sistan and he, Balochistan's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, were killed in clashes with "terrorists" in Zahedan. Videos on social media showed several injured protesters being helped by fellow protesters, one of whom was trying to stop the bleeding of a man who was believed to have been shot in the neck.
Amid reports of the planned student strike, authorities have announced that Zahedan University will hold remote classes until Oct. 8, his semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
Internet watchdog NetBlocks said on his Twitter account that live network data showed regional Internet chaos in Zahedan.
Protesters in southeastern Iran, home to the Baloch minority, also set fire to government offices in at least one city. State news agency IRNA said an assassination attempt on a judge in Saravan City failed.