Overnight, state media said that a municipal building was set fire in Karaj, west of Tehran. Doctors in Tehran said that just six hospitals in the capital had recorded at least 217 protester deaths, “most by live ammunition” as hospitals were overwhelmed. Iranian authorities appear to have shut down the internet for over a day, according to an internet monitoring organisation.
“After another night of protests met with repression, metrics show the nationwide internet blackout remains in place at 36 hours,” Netblocks said on X on Saturday morning. “Experience has shown that resorting to such measures is intended to conceal the violence inflicted during the suppression of protests,” Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi said on the Instagram account of Panahi, who won the top prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
