"Hey world, hear me: I want a revolution. School girls across Iran have joined the protests, videos on social media showed. Blaming the protests on Iran's foreign foes, authorities said "rioters" have killed at least 20 members of the security forces. Unfazed by teargas, clubs, and, in many cases, live ammunition used by the security forces, according to rights groups, protesters across Iran have persist with demonstrators burning pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling for the downfall of the clerical establishment.Īt least 185 people, including 19 minors, have been killed, hundreds injured and thousands have been arrested by security forces, according to rights groups. Reuters could not verify the videos and posts. A video showed several explosions creating blinding flashes in a neighbourhood of Sanandaj, the capital of the Kurdistan province.Īctivists said on social media that several people, including two teenagers, were killed by security forces in the province. Heavy gunfire could be heard in several videos shared on Twitter by the activist 1500tasvir. Iran has a track record of putting down unrest among its more than 10 million Kurds, part of a Kurdish minority whose aspirations for autonomy have also led to conflicts with authorities in Turkey, Iraq and Syria. The Iranian authorities have blamed the violence on an array of enemies including armed Iranian Kurdish dissidents, with the Revolutionary Guards attacking their bases in neighbouring Iraq a number of times during the latest unrest. However, analysts said that Iran's clerical rulers will likely contain the unrest for now, and prospects of the imminent dawn of a new political order are slim. Iran's oil ministry was not immediately available to comment.Ī combination of mass protests and strikes by oil workers and Bazaar merchants helped to sweep the clergy to power in the Iranian revolution four decades ago. While university students have played a pivotal role in the protests with dozens of universities on strike, unconfirmed reports on social media showed workers at Abadan and Kangan oil refineries and the Bushehr Petrochemical Project had joined in. 16 while being held for "inappropriate attire", marking one of the boldest challenges to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution. Protests have swept Iran since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran's Kurdish region, died on Sept. DUBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, as demonstrations elsewhere in Iran spread into the country's vital energy sector.
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