Live Coverage: Nationwide protests started in Iran before noon on Saturday after activists earlier in the week called for fresh demonstrations against the government.
While Saturday is the first day of the week and a workday in Iran, many people have poured into the streets of Iranian cities. This video is from Arak in central Iran, where demonstrators call for their citizens' support.
As President Ebrahim Raisi arrives in Tehran's Al-Zahra University for a speech on National Student's Day, female students are seen removing their hijab and holding a gathering.
@1500tasvir "Mullahs Must Get Lost," Iranian protesters in the city of Mashhad, home to the shrine of the eighth Shia imam, are heard chanting on Saturday night.
@1500tasvir Massive protests underway in Tehran's Naziabad neighborhood on Saturday night.
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#BREAKING Canadian Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau says Canada has designated Iran's IRGC leadership, banning over 10,000 of its members from entering Canada forever according to new restrictive measures.
@JustinTrudeau Canadian PM: Today, we’re using the most powerful tools at our disposal to crack down on Iran's brutal regime. We'll be pursuing a listing of IRGC leadership under our Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, making over 10,000 senior IRGC members inadmissible to Canada.
Canadian PM: We intend to massively expand targeted sanctions under Special Economic Measures Act to hold to account those people most responsible for Iran's egregious behavior. We're also expanding our capacity to fight money laundering & to crack down on foreign interference.
#BREAKING The Iranian embassy in Copenhagen has been surrounded by Denmark's security forces over a "security incident", Danish media reported Friday.
Iran's ambassador to Copenhagen Afsaneh Naderipour says a knife-wielding assailant broke into the embassy on Friday, and started threatening, intimidating, and damaging the cars parked there.
Reacting to the incident in Denmark, Iran's Foreign Minister @Amirabdolahian expressed "regret that such an attack is launched in the heart of Europe against a woman and ambassador who enjoys diplomatic immunity, and the police fails to arrive on time."
Nika Shakarami, 17, was arrested during #IranProtests after burning her headscarf. After a week security forces delivered her dead body to her family w/ her nose fully smashed & her skull broken with multiple blows.
Outrage over her murder is now adding fuel to fire of protests.
Similar to case of #MahsaAmini, the Islamic Republic denied killing & even arresting her, claiming that she’d died after falling down a nearby rooftop. However, security forces stole her body and buried her secretly.
Conservatives are now warning she may turn into another Mahsa.
Iran’s state broadcaster on Wednesday aired the forced confessions of #NikaShakarami’s uncle. The footage analyzed by social media users clearly shows the security forces are there forcing him to say what they demand and apparently insulting him.
Student protests continue across Iran: This video from Mashhad’s Ferdowsi University shows students chanting “Referendum, Referendum, This Is People’s Slogan” and “Justice, Freedom, Optional Hijab”.
A huge number of unveiled schoolgirls in Karaj, west of Tehran, held a protest rally on Tuesday, chanting “Death to Dictator”, “Woman, Life, Liberty” and “I Will Kill He Who Killed My Sister”.
Iran's Intelligence Ministry: We're closely watching the foreign embassies whose agents have been involved, even to a small extent, in recent riots, and have warned the diplomats of the embassies of Germany, France, Britain, and Sweden, among others.
#BREAKING Iran's Intelligence Ministry says it has arrested nine foreigners including German, Polish, French, Italian, Dutch, and Swedish nationals in recent days over their alleged involvement in #IranProtests2022.
The Intelligence Ministry says it has also arrested 49 MEK agents who organized terrorism and vandalism and fabricated fake news to incite riots, 77 agents of Kurdish dissident groups (Komala, KDPI, PAK and PJAK) including one of their senior commanders trained in US bases.
Gunshots are heard in videos of Zahedan protests, where protesters apparently tried to storm a police station. Local sources say several worshippers have been killed or wounded on Friday noon.
#BREAKING Videos obtained by @IranIntl show the Islamic Republic has violently cracked down on the protests of Zahedan citizens who demanded accountability for a a local police commander accused of raping a 15-year-old girl.