Iran demonstrations: Police use drones to control protests

Created: 2022-10-30Updated: 2022-10-30, 5:40 p.m

By: Victoria Krumbeck

People in Iran have been protesting for six weeks.

Women, men and children take to the streets to fight for their freedoms.

Many pay with death.

• Revolutionary Guard threatens demonstrators

  : "Today is the last day of the riots"

• Iranian police

  use drones to control protesters

• After the

  death

  of

  Mahsa Amini

  : protests in Iran enter their seventh week

• This 

  news ticker

   about the 

  protests in Iran

   is constantly updated.

Munich/Tehran — Dozens of pictures and videos from Iran are going around the world.

They show the protests against the authoritarian leadership of the Islamic country and the clashes with the security forces.

They also make it clear how brutal the regime is against the activists.

Hundreds of people have already died and the Revolutionary Guard is increasingly threatening the demonstrators.

In addition, the Iranian police are said to be using drones to better control the protests.

Revolutionary Guard threatens demonstrators — “Last day of riots”

Thousands of people still take to the streets in Iran to demonstrate for their rights.

But the tone of the Revolutionary Guard is getting sharper.

On Saturday, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), Hussein Salami, called for an end to the demonstrations in a speech.

"The demonstrators should not overtax the patience of the system," warned the general, according to a report by the state news agency IRNA.

Demonstrators at the large demonstration "Solidarity with the protesters in Iran" in Berlin.

© Paul Zinken/dpa

“Today is the last day of the riots.

Don't come out on the streets anymore," said Salami.

No one will allow the protesters to continue creating insecurity and turning the country's universities into a "battlefield."

Observers took the speech by IRGC commander Salami as a final warning to end the protests.

It is feared that the military and the Revolutionary Guards will soon be deployed against demonstrators.

Iranian police use drones to control demonstrations

The demonstrators were not deterred by the words and continued the protest actions in many parts of the country.

As in the past few weeks, the security forces used violence against the activists.

Iranian media also reported that the Iranian police are said to be using drones to control the systemic protests.

According to the Tasnim news agency - which is considered the mouthpiece of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards - the drones are intended to help the special forces in particular to monitor events more effectively.

In addition, the drones should also find homemade bombs made by demonstrators.

Tasnim left it open which drones are involved in the police operations.

The police and security forces claim that the demonstrators are increasingly setting fire to public facilities with Molotov cocktails.

Some of them are also armed and have killed at least 27 security forces in the past few weeks.

This information could not be independently verified.

However, observers see the willingness to use violence on the part of the demonstrators as a reaction to the brutal actions of the police.

After the death of Mahsa Amini — protests in Iran enter their seventh week

The trigger for the protests was the death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini.

The vice squad arrested her for allegedly violating Islamic dress codes.

The young woman died in police custody.

For six weeks, the cries of “women, life, freedom” have been heard from many cities.

In Germany and other European cities, too, people are taking to the streets and showing solidarity with the Iranian population.

According to human rights organizations, at least 250 people have been killed and more than 10,000 arrested since mid-September.

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Furthermore, the internet is still restricted in Iran.

Many social networks are blocked to make collusion between demonstrators more difficult.

The leadership in Tehran blames the country's "enemies" - above all the USA and Israel - for the unrest.

Citizens' demands for more freedom have so far been labeled a foreign conspiracy - and ignored.