Countless dead – Iran responds to protests with “live ammunition”.

Amiry-Moghaddam called on the international community to take “determined and united concrete steps” against the “killing and torture” of protesters. According to the organization, deaths were counted in 14 provinces of the country, including 25 in Masandaran on the Caspian Sea alone. Three people died in Tehran, it said.

739 arrests reported on Saturday
Iranian authorities on Monday reported more than 1,200 arrests and at least 41 deaths, including numerous security forces. “During the unrest of recent days, 450 rioters have been arrested in Mazandaran,” prosecutor general of Iran’s northern province Mohammad Karimi said Monday, according to state news agency IRNA. Iranian authorities had already reported 739 arrests on Saturday.

In Mazandaran, “rioters” attacked “government buildings and damaged public property,” Karimi said. According to local media reports, the protesters chanted anti-government slogans. 88 people were also arrested in southern Hormozgan province, the Fars news agency reported – there were also dozens of arrests in the cities of Zanjan to the northwest, Kerman to the southeast and Karaj to the west of Tehran. According to images released by IHR, protesters in Tehran chanted “death to the dictator” and demanded the overthrow of Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Students tore up photos of Khomeini
Riot police beat protesters with batons, students tore up large photos of Khamenei and his predecessor Ayatollah Khomeini, new videos released by AFP news agency show.

Protesters threw rocks, set fire to police cars and set fire to public buildings. Other images showed women in various cities taking off their veils and setting them on fire, or symbolically cutting their hair.

Try to identify “leaders of the riot”.
The Tasnim news agency released about 20 photos of protesters, including women, in the Shia holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, on Monday. The army had asked residents to identify the “leaders of the riot” in photos and to “inform the authorities”. According to the Washington-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 18 journalists were among those arrested. Dozens of activists have also been arrested, including human rights activist Hossein Ronaghi, who is fighting for freedom of expression in Iran.

“Allow peaceful protests”
In view of the violence against the protesters, the German government has summoned the Iranian ambassador. “We call on the Iranian authorities to allow peaceful protests and not to use any further – let alone deadly – violence against protesters,” the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin said on Twitter. This was also communicated directly to the Iranian ambassador.

A spokesman also pointed out that Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) had announced that Germany wanted to put events in Iran on the agenda of the UN Human Rights Council. In addition, the Iranian ambassador to Vienna, Abbas Bagherpour Ardekani, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.

Canada announced Monday it would impose sanctions on a dozen Iranian officials and entities, including the vice squad. “We will impose sanctions on dozens of individuals and entities, including Iran’s so-called vice squad,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a news conference.

Headscarf not worn properly
The trigger for the nationwide protests was the death of the young Kurd Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the vice squad. Amini was arrested on September 13 on charges of not wearing the Islamic headscarf in accordance with strict regulations. After her arrest, she collapsed under mysterious circumstances at the police station and was pronounced dead in hospital three days later.