Iranian police
arrested "739 rioters, including 60 women" in Guilan province alone during protests last week following the death of 22 / year old Kurdish
Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the moral
police
who arrested her because she was not wearing the veil correctly.
The news agency Tasnim reported on Saturday, citing General Azizollah Maleki, chief of police in the province of Guilan, in northern Iran.
The ultra-conservative Iranian president
Ebrahim Rais
i said that the demonstrations and unrest in Iran should be dealt with "harshly".
Quoted by Irna, Raisi described the demonstrators as "rioters who disturb order and security in the country" by talking on the phone with Mohammadrasul Doustbeigi, a member of the Guardians of the Revolution (Pasdaran) and of the militia that defends the Shiite holy places, which fights in Iraq and Syria.
Just today Tehran gave its official toll of the clashes, speaking of 35 dead after a week of protests, while the unofficial ones place that number at at least 50, as well as hundreds of injured and hundreds of arrests.
