Iranian security forces are holding detained protesters in deplorable conditions without due process while continuing to arrest more to prevent fresh protests and as a ploy to prove foreign countries incited the unrest that engulfed the country in November.
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Iran's Special Unit security force is the most feared suppression machine dealing with popular protests.
Security forces prevented fresh protests in Iran on December 26 by overwhelming presence and arrests.
Social media users in Iran have posted videos of the heavy presence of security forces and riot police in many cities and townships in anticipation of a new round of protests since the evening of December 24.
Iranian security forces are preparing to prevent a fresh round of protests by slowing or shutting down the Internet in several cities and stationing security forces and riot police in the streets.
Fearing the 40th day memorial ceremony for Pouya Bakhtiari, one of the victims of the November protests, could start a fresh round of protests, Iran security forces arrested Pouya's family on Monday.
While Iranian officials have begun dismissing a Reuters report about 1,500 killed in protests, the claim that Khamenei ordered the crackdown is equally significant for Iranians.
According to three sources close to the Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei, he personally ordered his top security and government officials to do whatever it took to stop protesters in November.
A poll taken in Iran shows that the level of people's satisfaction with the Islamic Republic's performance is 15 percent in the capital city of Iran.
The son of a key ayatollah in 1980s says he has a second tape proving the government executed thousands in prisons in 1988.
Security entities in Iran tasked with suppressing dissent receive at least $9 billion from the government and have their own vast financial resources.
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