At least 17 people, including three security personnel, have been killed in Iran since the protests began six days ago, in protest of the death of a young woman who was arrested by the “moral police,” according to an official toll published Thursday.
Official Iranian news agencies reported that two policemen were stabbed to death on Wednesday in Tabriz and Mashhad, northwest of the country, after they were “called to confront rioters.” A member of the security forces was killed Tuesday during demonstrations in Shiraz, central Iran. Iranian officials had announced earlier that six protesters had been killed since the protests began.
Protesters in Tehran and several Iranian cities set fire to two police stations and vehicles on Thursday, as the unrest that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police, who died last week after she was arrested by the morality police in Tehran for wearing “inappropriate clothes”, continues for the sixth day. “. She fell into a coma during her detention. The authorities said they would open an investigation to determine the cause of death.
Amini’s death unleashed an outcry among the population and led to the worst protests in Iran since 2019. Most of them were concentrated in the Kurdish-populated northwestern regions of Iran, but also spread to the capital and at least 50 cities and towns across the Islamic Republic. The police used force to disperse the demonstrators.
A video clip published by the “Tamar 1500” account, which focuses on Iran’s protests and has a following of about 100,000, showed protesters in the northeast of the country chanting, “We die, we die and Iran returns” near a police station in flames.