Iran Protests

There was no immediate report in Iranian state-run media on the incident near Azadi, or Freedom, Square in Tehran on Sunday night after a call went up for protests there

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According to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, after he was reportedly arrested during protests against the regime

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The nationwide demonstrations were triggered by a shock fuel price hike

Amnesty said there had been dozens of deaths in the Tehran suburb of Shahriar, likely one of the areas with the highest toll of those killed in the unrest

The attack on the police station in the town of Qahderijan, in the central province of Isfahan, led to violence that claimed the lives of six protesters

Iran government has slammed Trump for tweeting his support for Iranian protesters

Authorities restricted access to Iran's most popular social-media platform in response to one of the biggest shows of dissent against the country's leadership in years

Iran yesterday blocked access to Instagram and the popular messaging app Telegram used by activists to organise

Rouhani said that the aim of these protests should be to improve the situation in the country and people's lives

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov wrote on Twitter that authorities had blocked access to the app

Videos posted on social media showed demonstrators yelling, "The people are begging, the clerics act like God"