MOSCOW, Nov 29 At least 300 people died in the last unrest in Iran, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Forces, said on Tuesday. «, — Hajizade is quoted by the Mehr agency as saying.
Mass riots and protests have continued in Iran since mid-September over the death of a young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was detained by the vice police. Street riots take place mainly in the provinces of Gilan, Khuzestan, Sistan and Balochistan, Tehran and Kurdistan. The Iranian authorities accuse Western countries of supporting the protesters, who in their media disseminate subversive, anti-Iranian messages, as well as calls for the overthrow of power in Iran. The rioters are systematically attacking and killing members of the security forces — the police, the IRGC, as well as members of one of the major military structures — the Basij.
In early November, cases of attacks on clerics and abbots of Iranian mosques in the peripheral provinces of the country became more frequent. Law enforcement agencies carry out mass detentions of people recruited by the intelligence services of Western countries, Israel and Saudi Arabia, and also seize large quantities of weapons at the country's borders supplied to the rioters almost daily.
On September 13, Amini was detained in Tehran by the vice police and sent for explanatory conversations in one of the «Faraj» centers belonging to the police department and military intelligence. In this center, the girl had a heart attack, after which she was immediately taken to the hospital. She died three days later. Residents blamed the vice police for Mahsa's death. People in different cities of the country began to gather on the streets to protest. Videos have been posted on social networks showing girls cutting off their hair and burning a hijab or «Rusari» headscarf, which, according to the law, must cover the head of an Iranian woman.