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Over 30,000 others have been arrested. Dozens are under threat of being executed. The international community must intervene to stop the regime’s brutality.
In the city of Javanrud activists posted footage of one drone above the city and reported that IRGC units were using heavy machine guns to fire in the city.
In a video posted on Kian Melli 1 on Telegram on November 7, 2022, a student at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences confronted Mohammad-Hossein Saffar-Harandi, a member of Iran’s Expediency Council who has also served as Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The student criticized Saffar-Harandi and people like him for having remained silent during Ahmadinejad’s government, which suppressed the anti-regime protests in 2009. He also accused Saffar-Harandi and people like him of being responsible for corruption in Iran.