Xinhua News Agency, Teheran, January 1 (Reporter Mu Dong Ma Xiao) Demonstrations broke out in several Iranian cities recently. As of January 1, eight people, including a policeman, have died in the demonstrations.
According to the Iranian Student News Agency, four demonstrators were killed and six others were injured in a demonstration in Dorud, Restan province in the west. Masala H. Nemati, Governor of Luo Restan Province, stressed that instead of shooting at the demonstrators, some people dressed as civilians took advantage of the chaos to shoot at the police who were maintaining order, causing many policemen to be injured.
The Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency reported on the 1st that three people were killed in a demonstration in Tusken, Hamadan province in western Iran. It is also reported that one security policeman was shot and killed by mobs and three policemen were injured in a demonstration in Najafabad, Isfahan province in central Iran.
Iranian police arrested dozens of demonstrators. At the same time, TELEGRAM, the most important social media software for the Iranian people, has been closed, the Internet speed has been greatly reduced, and all foreign servers’ access to Iran has also been closed.
Recently, the prices of some commodities in Iran have continued to rise, and the Iranian government also plans to cut social welfare and raise fuel prices. The public expressed dissatisfaction with this. Recently, in the religious holy cities of Qom and Mashhad, the tourist city of Isfahan and the capital Tehran, people took to the streets and shouted slogans, accusing the Iranian government of failing to deal with economic problems.
Iran’s economy has been in a downturn in recent years. According to official Iranian data, Iran’s current unemployment rate is as high as 12.4%, up 1.4 percentage points from the same period last year.
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