The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador to Tehran for the fourth time since the protests that rocked Iran more than two months ago began, IRNA reported.
“Simon Shercliffe has been summoned to protest the recent attack by a militant group on the Iranian embassy in London,” the news agency confirmed.
In addition, human rights organizations and activists have raised concerns about Iran’s wide-ranging “campaign of repression” in Mahabad, a Kurdish city in the west of the country where protests against the regime have recently taken place. According to the same source, security forces, Revolutionary Guards and helicopters are sent to the city. According to the latest figures, the death toll since the protests began on September 16, after the death of Mahsa Amini, has risen to at least 378 people, including 47 children.
Security reinforcements were sent to the city in the west of the country, and photographs and audio files of heavy gunfire and screams were released during the night.
The first demonstrations broke out in areas inhabited by Kurds, including in the city of Sakkez, where Mahsa Amini was born, and then spread to several regions of the country. Human rights organizations have previously released footage of protests in Mahabad, including photographs of funerals for victims of the bloody crackdown.
The Norwegian-based organization Hescaw said “military forces” had been sent from Urmia, the capital city of West Azerbaijan province, to Mahabad. “There is intense shooting going on in residential areas of Mahabad,” the organization tweeted.
