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Iranian students defied warnings from the feared Revolutionary Guards that nationwide protests must end by Sunday and were met with tear gas, beatings and gunfire from riot police and militia, videos on social media showed.
The confrontations at dozens of universities, along with threats of a tougher crackdown, indicated that the demonstrations, now in their seventh week, were entering a more violent phase.
Iranians from all walks of life have been protesting since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police after she was arrested for attire deemed inappropriate.
What began as outrage over Amini’s death on September 16 has evolved into one of the toughest challenges to clerical rulers since the 1979 revolution, with some protesters calling for the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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The top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, the harshest warning yet by Iranian authorities.
Nevertheless, videos on social media, unverifiable by Reuters, showed confrontations between students and riot police and Basij forces on Sunday at universities all over Iran.
One video showed a member of Basij forces firing a gun at close range at students protesting at a branch of Azad University in Tehran. Gunshots were also heard in a video shared by rights group HENGAW from protests at the University of Kurdistan in Sanandaj. Videos from universities in some other cities also showed Basij forces opening fire at students.
Across the country, security forces tried to block students inside university buildings, firing tear gas and beating protesters with sticks. The students, who appeared to be unarmed, pushed back, with some chanting “dishonoured Basij get lost” and “Death to Khamenei”.

The activist HRANA news agency said 283 protesters had been killed in the unrest as of Saturday including 44 minors. Some 34 members of the security forces were also killed.
More than 14,000 people have been arrested, including 253 students, in protests in 132 cities and towns, and 122 universities, it said.
Germany and the European Union are examining whether to classify Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Sunday.
“I made it clear last week that we will launch another package of sanctions, that we will examine how we can also list the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation,” Baerbock said in an interview with ARD broadcaster on Sunday.

The Guards and its affiliated Basij force have crushed dissent in the past. They said on Sunday, “seditionists” were insulting them at universities and in the streets, and warned they may use more force if the anti-government unrest continued.
“So far, Basijis have shown restraint and they have been patient,” the head of the Revolutionary Guards in the Khorasan Junubi province, Brigadier General Mohammadreza Mahdavi, was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA.
“But it will get out of our control if the situation continues.”
More than 300 Iranian journalists demanded the release of two colleagues jailed for their coverage of Amini in a statement published by the Iranian Etemad and other newspapers on Sunday.

Niloufar Hamedi took a photo of Amini’s parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital where their daughter was lying in a coma.
The image, which Hamedi posted on Twitter, was the first signal to the world that all was not well with Amini, who had been detained three days earlier by Iran’s morality police for what they deemed inappropriate dress.
Elaheh Mohammadi covered Amini’s funeral in her Kurdish hometown Saqez, where the protests began. A joint statement released by Iran’s intelligence ministry and the intelligence organisation of the Revolutionary Guards on Friday had accused Hamedi and Mohammadi of being CIA foreign agents.
The arrests match an official narrative that Iran’s arch-enemy the United States, Israel and other Western powers and their local agents are behind the unrest and are determined to destabilise the country.
At least 40 journalists have been detained in the past six weeks, according to rights groups, and the number is growing.
Students and women have played a prominent role in the unrest, burning their veils as crowds call for the fall of the Islamic Republic, which came to power in 1979.


An official said on Sunday the establishment had no plan to retreat from compulsory veiling but should be “wise” about enforcement.
“Removing the veil is against our law and this headquarters will not retreat from its position,” Ali Khanmohammadi, the spokesman of Iran’s headquarters for “Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice” told the Khabaronline website.
“However, our actions should be wise to avoid giving enemies a pretext to use it against us.”
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The apparent hint at compromise is unlikely to appease the protesters, most of whose demands have moved beyond dress code changes to calls for an end to clerical rule.
In a further apparent bid to defuse the situation, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said people were right to call for change and their demands would be met if they distanced themselves from the “criminals” taking to the streets.
“We consider the protests to be not only correct and the cause of progress, but we also believe that these social movements will change policies and decisions, provided that they are separated from violent people, criminals and separatists,” he said, using terms officials typically use for the protesters.


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A man in the Iranian capital Tehran reads a copy of the Hammihan newspaper, on October 30, featuring on its cover a headline mentioning the statement by the Tehran journalists’ association, criticising the detention by authorities of two journalists, Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi (drawing on cover), who according to local media, helped publicise the case of Masha Amini. Photo: AFP

This image grab from a UGC video posted on October 28, reportedly shows Iranian security forces on motorbikes in front of the dormitories of the Kurdistan University Faculty of Medical Sciences in Sanandaj, the main city of Iran’s Kurdistan province. Photo: AFP

Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s Foreign Minister. Photo: Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH / dpa

A copy of Iranian daily newspaper Sazandegi showing pictures of two Iranian female journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi among other imprisoned journalists and photojournalist with a title “journalism is not a crime”. Photo: EPA-EFE

‘The beginning of the end’: Iranians continue protests over Mahsa Amini’s death despite internet cuts

Iranian protesters chant slogans as they march in a street in the southeastern city of Zahedan on October 14. Cities across Iran have seen protests since 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini died on September 16 after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly failing to observe the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women. Photo: AFP

This grab taken from a UGC video made available on the ESN platform on October 12 shows protesters in the Iranian Kurdish city of Bukan, in Iran’s west Azerbaijan province, burning a national flag and chanting “woman, life, freedom” and “death to Khamenei” (Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei). Photo: AFP

This grab taken from a UGC video made available on the ESN platform on October 12 shows people reacting during a protest in the Iranian Kurdish city of Bukan, in Iran’s west Azerbaijan province. Photo: AFP

Justin Trudeau joins Canadian demonstrators in support of Iran protests

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to demonstrators in Ottawa, Ontario on Saturday. Photo: The Canadian Press via AP

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marches along Alexandra Bridge in Ottawa, Canada on Saturday during a protest in support of women in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini. Photo: Reuters

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A large number of people walk to the cemetery where Mahsa Amini is buried in Saqez, in Iran’s Kurdistan province, on Wednesday. Photo: TNS

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People carry a sign that reads “Woman, Life, Freedom” as hundreds rally on Saturday in Washington in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran. Photo: AP

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Iranian women shout slogans during a demonstration outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, Saturday, October 22, 2022. Photo: AP 

A demonstrator in Berlin, Germany, holds a poster during a protest about the death of Mahsa Amini. Photo: Reuters

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Students, ignoring warnings by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that nationwide protests must end by Sunday, have faced tear gas, beatings and gunfire from riot police
Clashes at dozens of universities across Iran and threats of a tougher crackdown indicate that protests are entering a more violent phase


Students, ignoring warnings by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that nationwide protests must end by Sunday, have faced tear gas, beatings and gunfire from riot police.
