Iran state TV acknowledges shooting of protesters amid outrage over gas prices
Iran acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that its security forces shot and killed protesters across the country to put down demonstrations last month over the sharply increasing price of gasoline, the deadliest unrest to hit the country since the turmoil of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The demonstrations show the widespread economic discontent gripping Iran since May 2018, when President Trump imposed crushing sanctions after unilaterally withdrawing the United States from the nuclear deal that Tehran struck with world powers. Trump himself, speaking to journalists before a NATO summit in London this week, claimed without evidence Iran has killed “thousands.”The demonstrations followed months of attacks across the Middle East that the U.S. blames on Tehran.
The Arab population of the surrounding oil-rich province long has complained of discrimination by Iran’s central government, and insurgent groups have attacked oil pipelines there. Iran blamed both area separatists and the Islamic State group for an attack on a military parade in the region in September 2018 that killed at least 25 people.
State TV also acknowledged that security forces confronted “rioters” during the protests in Tehran, as well as in the cities of Shiraz and Sirjan. It also mentioned the Tehran suburb of Shahriar, where Amnesty International on Monday said there had been “dozens of deaths.” It described the suburb as likely one of the areas with the highest death tolls in the unrest. Shahriar has seen heavy protests.
The death toll of at least 208 makes it the bloodiest unrest in Iran since the time of the Islamic Revolution. The 2009 Green Movement protests that followed a disputed presidential election drew millions to the streets but saw far less killing. Iranians have seen their savings chewed away by the rial’s collapse from 32,000 to $1 U.S. at the time of the 2015 nuclear accord to 127,000 to $1 today under the renewed U.S. sanctions. The cost of daily staples also has risen.
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