Press TV - An official at Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has categorically dismissed a report by the Reuters news agency that claimed a death toll of around 1,500 people during recent riots over fuel price hikes.
The London-based news outlet said in a report on Monday that, About 1,500 people were killed during less than two weeks ...
Al-Monitor - Amnesty International has updated its death toll from the protests in Iran in November to 304.
Iranian authorities so far have refused to issue any official numbers, causing frustration even from hard-line media. Abdullah Ganji, the managing editor of Javan, a newspaper linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, wrote an op-ed ...
Tehran Times | Mohammad Ghaderi: The main question that has been raised in regard to the events of the past few weeks that followed the gasoline price reform is about the number of the dead and why it has not been announced yet?
Opposition media, focusing on the death toll, pursue a completely biased agenda to create mistrust in people and incite ...
Press TV - Iran's Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raeisi says those who suffered human or material losses during the recent foreign-backed riots will have to be compensated.
Addressing the Judiciarys Supreme Council, Raeisi said Monday the suffering could not be condoned under any circumstances, adding from the legal perspective, the injured parties certainly ...
MNA Prosecutor-General Mohammad Montazeri has rejected the death toll and the number of detained people during recent unrest in Iran given by the foreign media as invalid.
Speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran on Saturday, the Prosecutor-General Mohammad Montazeri said that the figures on the number of people who were arrested during ...