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2020-06-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Iran suggests up to 225 killed in November fuel price hike protests
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[Rudaw] Iran's interior minister has suggested that up to 225 people were killed in November protests sparked by a petrol price hike, ISNA news agency reported on Sunday.
Officials in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
have yet to issue an overall corpse count for the unrest, while London-based human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
group Amnesia Amnesty International has put the number at more than 300.
The protests erupted on November 15 in Tehran and rapidly spread to at least 100 cities and towns, with petrol pumps torched, cop shoppes attacked and shops looted, before being put down by security forces amid a near-total internet blackout.
Officials had repeatedly denied corpse counts given by foreign media and human rights groups as "lies", and passed responsibility of reporting on it between different state bodies.
"Sad things happened. About 40 or 45 people, meaning around 20 percent of those killed, were shot with non-standard issue weapons and martyred," said Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli.
"No armed confrontation with the people happened... but when they attack a cop shoppe, they have to be confronted," ISNA quoted him as saying.
His breakdown indicated that, according to the government, between 200 and 225 people were killed in the violence.
According to Amnesty, at least 304 people were killed during the unrest.
A group of independent UN rights experts said in December that based on unconfirmed reports more than 400 people could have been killed in the crackdown.
The experts said at the time that at least 12 of those killed were children.
They pointed to reports and footage apparently showing that security forces "not only fired live ammunition at unarmed protesters, but also aimed at their heads and vital organs".
The United States has claimed that more than 1,000 were killed in the violence, while news agency Rooters reported in December that around 1,500 people were killed over the course of the protests.
Iran has blamed the violence that broke out during the protests on "thugs" backed by its foes the United States, Israel and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
It has singled out exiled royalists and the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK), an exiled former rebel group which it considers a "terrorist cult".
The minister said the petrol price hike had been "just an excuse" for creating chaos as foes had wanted a "civil war" in Iran.
He also defended the internet blackout, saying that the MEK, monarchists, and the Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group were "giving military training through the internet". 
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