The Iranian president promised to take action against the protesters after more than weeks of anti-government demonstrations.
President Ibrahim Raisi vowed to “strongly respond” to protests now sweeping through most of Iran's 31 provinces.
BBC reports.
The death toll during the protests has risen to 41.
Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi insists that the woman detained by the morality police of the Islamic Republic was not killed.
” Records of regulatory authorities were obtained, witnesses were interviewed, video recordings were reviewed, the conclusions of forensic experts were obtained and it was established that the beating did not take place,” he said.
Iranian state media writes that, according to the president, “it is necessary to distinguish between protests and violations of public order and security. He called the events in the country “mass unrest.”
Protests have now engulfed most of Iran's 31 provinces.
Hundreds of people have already been detained by the security forces during the protests. Police chief of the northwestern province of Guilan announced that about 739 people, including 60 women, were detained in his region alone.
Recall that protests in the country over the death of Mahsa Amina, women burn their hijabs and oppose the Islamic Republic. authorities restrict access to the Internet in the country.On September 20, mass protests in Iran entered a new phase.
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