Iranian authorities’ figures are contradictory when counting the death toll in recent peaceful demonstrations, days after the Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced last Tuesday that more than 300 people have been killed in Iran since the recent protests that followed . Mahsa Amini’s death on 16 September after being detained by the police.
Today, Saturday, Iran’s so-called Security Council, Shack, came out to downsize and acknowledge the deaths of 200 people in what it called the country’s recent unrest.
In a statement from Iran’s Security Council, Shaq, who is headed by Iran’s interior minister, demanded clarification on recent developments in the country: “Peaceful protests in the country were quickly diverted to illegal paths and riots in the streets. because the media atmosphere is equally fueled by terrorist media.” Recipe.
The statement stated that within a short period of time, “with the arrival of a network of professionals and instructors to organize the riots, the protests turned into riots and terrorist acts under the influence of the atmosphere of the external media,” the statement said.
Peaceful protests erupted across Iran after a young woman was killed by Iranian police as a result of torture, which the Iranians rejected and took to the streets to regain their freedom from the oppression of the authorities.
The statement claimed that the direct attack on security and military centers, police stations and law enforcement agencies, the killing of protesters to blame the state, the destruction of medical centers and ambulances, and the widespread destruction of public places and facilities such as: municipalities , fire engines, mosques, banks and private property of people. It was on the agenda of the rioters.
According to the statement, the investigations of the authorities concerned showed that more than 200 people died as a result of the above-mentioned riots. The dead can be divided into the following categories:
“Shaheeds of the security forces, citizens who became martyrs as a result of terrorist operations, and innocent victims who became victims of the project of opposition groups to kill citizens in order to accuse the state, as well as innocent citizens who died as a result of the security situation and a number of rioters and a number of armed counter-revolutionary elements from separatist groups”.
“The material damage from these events is estimated at thousands of billions of tomans, as damage was caused to state centers, state and private facilities. The Commission of Inquiry under the Ministry of Internal Affairs was obliged to accurately assess and classify the damage, as well as to determine the method of compensation for material and moral damage.”
