The protests continued to expand in Iran on its eleventh day with mobilizations that have reached all 31 provinces of the country and which have been joined by several universities, while the number of deaths reached 38.
Throughout Wednesday, protests and mobilizations took place in 37 cities in 24 provinces, in a day with violent clashes that caused the death of two police officers in the central city of Lordegan, where around 30 people were also injured, according to the Fars agency.
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According to the story of this agency linked to the Revolutionary Guard, in one peaceful mobilization motivated by the economic situation Armed “troublemakers” infiltrated and opened fire on the Police, who responded in turn.
In other protests throughout the country, shops and bazaars were closed in Tehran and Tabriz (northwest) and in the city of Bandar Abbas, an important center of the oil industry in the Persian country, according to videos shared by NGOs and activists on social networks.
In addition, there were mobilizations at universities in Qom, a religious center, and in Tehran, where Azad University announced that it will hold end-of-year exams online.
The protests have spread to 111 cities in the country’s 31 provinces in clashes that have claimed the lives of 38 people, Of them four members of the security forces and the rest protesters, nearly a thousand have been injured and 2,076 protesters have been arrested, according to data from human rights organizations.
The protests began on December 28 due to the loss of value of the rial and high inflation, but soon they began to call for the end of the Islamic Republic, as often happens in mobilizations in the Persian country.
Just yesterday, shouts against the Islamic Republic and the usual “death to the dictator” in reference to the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, were heard in various cities, a slogan that was launched yesterday from the windows of houses in various parts of Tehran.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been in power since 1989.
The symbols of the Islamic Republic were not spared from the anger of the protesters and in the religious city of Mashad (west) a group of people under a huge flag of the country and destroyed it.
The president of Iran, Masud Pezeshkian, yesterday called on security forces to differentiate between legitimate protesters against the economic situation and “troublemakers” who act against national security.
Government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani, for her part, described the protesters as “our children” and called for dialogue with them.
The head of the Iranian Judiciary, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejei, was less conciliatory, warning for his part that “there will be “no clemency for those who help the enemy against the Islamic Republic” and accused the United States and Israel of trying to destabilize the country.
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