According to Iranian national media reported on Saturday as protests entered their 50th day that President Ebrahim Raisi declared all of Iran's big cities to be safe & sound following what he described as a failed attempt by the US to replicate the Arab upheavals of 2011.
Iran's Country authorities have battled to quell the across-the-board protests that broke out in September following the passing of a very young Iranian Kurdish woman who had been arrested by Irani forces for breaking tight clothing codes for women.
Irani Activists claim that thousands of people have died in one of the worst bouts of unrest to hit the nation since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Ahmad Shah Raza with US backing, most of whom were protestors.
President Joe Biden supported the demonstrators, saying: "We're going to free Iran. They're going to free themselves relatively soon," as Iranian authorities commemorated the anniversary of the radical students' takeover of the US embassy in Tehran this week.
Unverified video footage shows protesters yelling down authorities on university campuses and women removing and burning veils in violation of the severe dress restrictions as they lead many of the recent rallies.
In a four-hour discussion on Friday, Raisi reportedly told a group of students, "The Americans and other opponents tried to destabilize Iran by adopting the same plans as in Libya and Syria, but they failed.
After NATO intervened in Libya in 2011 in response to a popular uprising, rebels deposed and assassinated Muammar Gaddafi, the country's leader.
President Bashar al-opponents Assad's in Syria faced large-scale protests with force, which sparked an 11-year-old conflict in the region.
Raisi, on the other hand, declared that Iranian cities were now "secure and sound," pledging retaliation for the disruption the nation had experienced.
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As of Friday, 314 protestors had been slain in the turmoil, including 47 juveniles, according to the activist HRANA news agency. Additionally, 38 members of the security forces died. In protests in 136 cities and towns and 134 institutions, at least 14,170 individuals have been detained, including 392 students, the report claimed.
Sistan-Baluchistan, a restive province in Iran's southeast where a sizable portion of the Sunni minority lives, has seen some of the greatest killings.
Senior Sunni preacher Molavi Abdolhamid claimed that Friday's harsh crackdown on protestors in Khash, in the southeast, was an instance of government prejudice against the Baluch minority, who reside in the impoverished area near the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Amnesty International estimated that up to 10 people may have died when security personnel opened fire on demonstrators who reportedly stormed a government building with stones and flung them. View More
According to recordings provided by HRANA, protests were held on Saturday by students at a dozen institutions in Tehran, Karaj, west of the capital, Rasht, in the north, and Mashhad, in the northeast, while yelling chants like "Woman, Life, Freedom."
Iran's currency has fallen to new historic lows as a result of the crisis. According to the foreign exchange website Bonbast.com, the US dollar has lost up to 12% of its value since the protests began and were trading for as high as 362,200 rials on the black market on Saturday In the Country
The government on Saturday authorized online sales by currency dealers to make it simpler for consumers to purchase hard money, seemingly to slow the decline of Iran's ailing currency.
In the meantime, state media stated that the Intelligence Ministry had banned the bank accounts of 2,300 people suspected of participating in the foreign currency illegal market and warned them that they would face legal action.
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