Iran says 230 killed in November protests

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UPDATED. A senior Iranian lawmaker said Monday, June 1, that 230 people were killed and thousands injured in November protests sparked by a petrol price hike, state news agency IRNA reported.

It is the first time that an official in Iran has given overall casualty figures for the street violence.

Those injured included about 2,000 people and 5,000 forces deployed to ensure law and order, the report added. Officials had repeatedly rejected death tolls given by foreign media and human rights groups as"lies" and passed responsibility of reporting on it between different state bodies. The lawmaker insisted that the security forces were too far away from the protesters to have done this.

 

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