Iran Protests Mount as Authorities Continue Violent Crackdown
- Iran’s judiciary sentences a second protester to death
- Unrest follows day of strikes marking November 2019 uprising
A building set ablaze during protests in Tehran in November 2019.
Photographer: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo
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Protests swelled in cities across Iran late Tuesday, according to social media videos, following a day of general strikes marking the anniversary of one of the deadliest uprisings in the country’s history.
Scores of unverified videos shared on Twitter purportedly showed protests in multiple districts across the capital, Tehran, and in other cities like Shiraz, Esfahan, Hamedan, Bushehr, Bukan, Rasht and Sanandaj.