A website linked to the Islamic Republic Government official daily, Iran, said on Wednesday that the damage to the public properties in the first three days of widespread protests amounted to 23.3 trillion rials (approximately $700 million).
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in a tweet has expressed support for the Iranian people amid anti-Islamic Republic protests across Iran.
Iran says its security forces have arrested several dual nationals in Karaj near Tehran during anti-government demonstrations that were triggered by a gas price hike on Friday November 15.
Explaining why Iran's Supreme National Security Council's decision to cut off the internet on the second day of protests.
Iran protests continue intermittently as the government uses military force to quell the situation. Khamenei aide says he takes full responsibility.
Iran's non-oil exports have dropped 11.3 percent in the first seven months of the Iranian calendar year, March 21-October 21, compared with same period last year.
Reports received from Radio Farda listeners in Iran and a government news agency indicate protests continued Monday and Tuesday in several cities and town in Iran.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has lambasted the Islamic Republic for shutting down the Internet in Iran.
A former revolutionary and ex-ally of the Islamic Republic Supreme Leader, Abolfazl Qadyani (Ghadyani), has held Ayatollah Ali Khamenei directly responsible for an overnight three-fold increase in gasoline prices in Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei claimed Tuesday that protests in recent days were an “intelligence operation” not “popular protests”.
Iran’s Judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaeili claimed that individuals who have sent videos of the recent protests to "foreign and hostile networks" have been identified and will be punished.
The international community voices strong concern over dozens of protesters shot by security forces in Iran, while protests still continue.
The U.N. human rights office in Geneva has voiced deep concern on Tuesday at the Iranian security forces' use of live ammunition against demonstrators and urged authorities to rein in its use of force to disperse protests sparked by a hike in fuel prices.
Amnesty International says it is "horrified" at reports of security forces in Iran killing scores of protesters and shutting down the Internet.
Since widespread demonstrations against a three-fold increase in gasoline prices broke out four days ago, enraged protesters have attacked nearly nine Shi'a seminaries and Friday Prayer Imams' offices across the country, reports say.
In an exclusive interview with Radio Farda, the U. S. Special Representative for Iran asserted on Monday that the Islamic Republic establishment should listen to the demands of the Iranian people.
The ongoing widespread unrest in Iran since November 15, shows that protests have become more frequent and more intense. While large protests were happening with an interval of ten years before, now they are happening every two years.
The Islamic republic ambassador in London has said that hiking the price of gasoline, which has led to widespread protests shows “the strong bond between the state and the people in Iran”.
A key official in Iran says that if Tehran accepts international conventions against money laundering and terror financing, its revolutionary guard operations can be scrutinized.
The representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader in Fars province has threatened the provincial officials that if they fail to overcome protests, he will personally head the paramilitary Basij forces to quash the unrest.
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