A Revolutionary Guards commander revealed on Tuesday that more than 300 people had died in Iran since demonstrations started on September 16 when Mahsa Amini passed away while in the custody of the morality police.
“Everyone in the country has been affected by the death of this lady. I don’t have the latest figures, but I think we have had perhaps more than 300 martyrs and people killed in this country, including children, since this incident,” Brig. Gen. Amirali Hajjizadeh, head of the Guards’ aerospace division," said in a video published by the Mehr news agency.
The toll includes dozens of police, troops, and militia killed in clashes with demonstrators or murdered.
The latest official toll is much closer to the figure of at least 416 “killed in the suppression of protests in Iran” published by the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights.
“Everyone in the country has been affected by the death of this lady. I don’t have the latest figures, but I think we have had perhaps more than 300 martyrs and people killed in this country, including children, since this incident,” Brig. Gen. Amirali Hajjizadeh, head of the Guards’ aerospace division," said in a video published by the Mehr news agency.
The toll includes dozens of police, troops, and militia killed in clashes with demonstrators or murdered.
The latest official toll is much closer to the figure of at least 416 “killed in the suppression of protests in Iran” published by the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights.
