In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, protesters make fire and block the street during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran.
IRANIAN security forces shot down fleeing people with a gun mounted on the back of a pickup truck, video footage revealed today, as anti-government protests continue.
In the clip, verified by the BBC, bangs can be heard as the vehicle chases people in Baneh.
The city in Kurdish province has been under attack by Iranian authorities since protests broke out across the nation last month.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
