Communists accuse Iranian government of killings blamed on protesters
Protesters gather outside Iran's embassy in Rome
IRAN’S communist party blamed “agent provocateurs” of the state yesterday for killings attributed to anti-government protesters
Navid Shomali, the Tudeh Party representative in Britain, said nine deaths overnight were part of attempts to justify a “massive crackdown on the protest movement.”
Iranian media reported that six people were killed overnight when rioters attacked a police station in the town of Qahdarijan in central Isfahan province in a bid to seize guns.
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