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. Picture date: 21/9/22
PROTESTERS across Iran continued to clash violently with security forces early today following the death of a young woman in police custody, as Iranian state TV suggested the death toll from the unrest could be as high as 26.
Although the scope of the protests across some dozen Iranian cities and towns remains unclear outside the country, the movement represents the widest unrest since 2019, when rights groups said hundreds of people were killed in a violent crackdown.
Iran has also disrupted internet access to the outside world, according to internet traffic monitor Netblocks, and tightened restrictions on popular platforms used to organise rallies like Instagram and WhatsApp.
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
