At least one person is dead and possibly more after protests broke out across Iran against high inflation and a currency collapse.
Jan. 1 At least one person is dead and possibly more after protests broke out across Iran against high inflation and a currency collapse.
The protests have been happening for five days. At first, it was mostly merchants and university students in major cities, but now smaller cities are participating.
The semiofficial Tasnim news agency quoted Kazem Nazari, a prosecutor, as saying that 13 officers were injured and that one member of the Basij militia, which works with Iran’s security forces, died of his « severe injuries. »
But the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a Kurdish rights organization, said the man was Amir Hossam Khodayarifard, 22, from Kohdasht, Iran. It said he was not a member of the Basij and had been shot by government police forces.
