Protests continue in Iran as president threatens 'decisive' response - Portland Press Herald

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51% : NetBlocks, an internet monitoring group, said Sunday evening that it had detected a "nation-scale disruption to Mobinet," one of the largest mobile network operators in Iran.
51% : But little in Iran these days is clear:
42% : Videos circulated on Saturday and Sunday showed protests in several areas of Tehran, as well as in Shiraz, in southern Iran, and Fardis, west of the capital.
42% : Human rights activists and Farsi-language media outlets said the woman's name was Hadis Najafi and linked her to an earlier video in which a woman is seen tying her blond, uncovered hair in a ponytail on the edge of a protest said to be in Karaj, northwest of Tehran.
41% : Associated Press fileProtests continued in Tehran and other Iranian cities Sunday for a 10th day, with videos emerging of large demonstrations despite tightening internet restrictions and an expanding clampdown by security forces, monitoring groups said.
39% : The group said in a text message that the pace of protest videos emerging from Iran had slowed late Saturday into Sunday, in part because of internet disruptions imposed by the authorities over the past week, as well as restrictions on apps including Instagram and WhatsApp.
38% : As the internet blackout obscured events in Iran, news of the death of a lone protester, a woman, that circulated widely over the weekend sparked fresh anger.
35% : In one protest in Sattar Khan, a central neighborhood in Tehran, a crowd gathered around what was reported to be a burning police motorcycle, chanting "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we are all together," according to a video posted by 1500 Tasvir, an anti-government monitoring group.
24% : In this Sept. 19, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country's conservative dress code, in downtown Tehran, Iran.

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