(Reuters) – Protesters returned to the streets of Iran overnight from Thursday to Friday after weeks of relative calm and issued renewed calls for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, videos showed online on Friday.
The rallies, which began Thursday evening in many Iranian cities, including the capital Tehran, came 40 days after the execution of two protesters last month.
Protests have continued to rock Iran since the death in September of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd, after her arrest by vice police.
Footage showed rallies Friday in several neighborhoods of Tehran as well as in the cities of Karaj, Isfahan, Qazvin, Rasht, Arak, Mashhad, Sanandaj, Qorveh and Izeh.
Reuters was able to verify the authenticity of three of the videos of the protests in Zahedan and one of those in Tehran.
One of the videos posted online, believed to be from the Shia holy city of Mashhad in the northeast of the country, shows protesters chanting: “My martyred brother, we will avenge your blood.”
Other images show large demonstrations on Friday in Zahedan, capital of the province of Sistan-Balochistan, in the south-east of the country, where the Baloch minority is concentrated.
(Reuters; French version Dagmarah Mackos, editing by Tangi Salaün)
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