Protests against the death of a young Kurdish woman killed by “morality police” for failing to keep her head covered spread across Iran.
the official narrative on Wednesday, claiming more protesters have been killed than the authorities will admit. These groups also accused Iran of cutting off Internet service to the Kurdistan region, in a bid to suppress the growing protest movement.by state media on Wednesday warning that “restrictions to the Internet” could be imposed across more of Iran as unrest grows.
Zarepour quickly denied these reports, claiming he was misquoted and insisting there have only been “temporary restrictions in some places and at some hours, which have been resolved.”total Internet blockages were indeed imposed in western Iran, despite Zarepour’s denials, and their timing corresponds with the first Iranian deployments of lethal force against Kurdish demonstrators.
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