As protests in Iran resumed Tuesday evening, Fars news agency linked to the IRGC announced that the Supreme National Security Council was set to meet tonight.
The Fars website is inaccessible from abroad, apparently because its managers are concerned about hackers who have been active in the past ten days, disabling many government websites or obtaining confidential information. But its Twitter account announced that Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary of the security council said a meeting will be convened tonight and former President Hassan Rouhani has also been invited to attend. It added that the ongoing unrest, “the exit of some members of parliament and the nuclear deal will be discussed.”
It is not clear what the exit of lawmakers refers to but in the Persian text its meaning seems to be leaving the country.
Fars also announced that a secondary airport near Tehran, Payam International Airport is closed, without providing any explanation.
There have been rumors in the past two days that some high-ranking regime insiders have sent their families abroad. Canada, Russia and Turkey have been mentioned as destinations.
Although security forces have killed more than 75 protesters according to Norway-based Iran Human Rights group, but the killings have not been at the horrific level of November 2019, when Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reportedly authorized unrestricted use of military weapons, killing at least 1,500 protesters.
Observers and ordinary Iranians have been anxious over the possibility that the regime might use unrestricted and all-out military force against the people.
Iran International cannot verify the full authenticity or details of videos posted on Twitter, but we use out best judgement to share what we believe is not disinformation.
Our live coverage of Tuesday protests ended at 00:40 Iran time on Wednesday.
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Protests in Gohar Dasht district of Karaj, a city 20 miles west of Tehran.
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A human rights monitoring group tweeted this video showing protests in the central city of Yazd, where people blocked streets to prevent the movement of security forces.
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Security forces shot an elderly citizen in the Narmak district of the capital Tehran during Tuesday's protests. In this video, people are carrying him away.
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Another video showing protests in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj close to Iraq in western Iran. It seems security forces are focused more on Tehran, rather than outlying cities.
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Basij para-military forces in the Ekbatan district of Tehran intimidating the residents who have been regularly chanting anti-goverment slogans from their apartment windows.
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A Twitter user is reporting use of tear gas and guns by security forces in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj in western Iran.
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A large protest march in Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran Tuesday evening.
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Protests in the western city of Kermanshah Tuesday evening, as marchers chant "Woman, Life, Liberty", a favorite slogan of the nationwide movement that was triggered when a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini was arrested for "improper higab" and received fatal blows to her head in police custody.
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Protests were taking place in the port city of Chabahar in the southeast on the Sea of Oman for the first time. The region is populated mostly with Sunni Iranians.