Reuters verified the location of two video clips using the distinctive arches and buildings matching file images. However, the semi-official Tasnim news agency denied that Khomeini’s house was set on fire, saying a small number of people had gathered outside the house. Social media videos show dozens of people cheering as a flash of fire ignites a building. Reuters was unable to independently verify the dates the videos were shot. The activist network 1500Tasvir said the incident happened on Thursday night in Khomeini’s hometown of Khomein, south of the capital Tehran. ATTENTION l Protesters bent despite the dangers they face: activist:
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Protesters continue to defy Iran’s regime, taking to the country’s streets on Tuesday to mark three years since another deadly crackdown on riots. Kaveh Shahrooz, a human rights activist, lawyer and senior fellow at the MacDonald Laurier Institute says the government’s efforts to “intimidate” protesters are failing. The house had been turned into a museum. “The report is a lie,” Tasnim said. “The doors of the house of the late founder of the great revolution are open to the public.” Khomeini returned to Iran after 15 years in exile in 1979 after longtime leader Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi fled the country in the face of growing opposition to his decade-long reign. Khomeini died in 1989.
Conflicting reports on the fatal incident in Izeh
Khomeini’s successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been under intense pressure from nationwide protests calling for an end to hardline clerical rule since the death of Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini while in custody of Iran’s morality police. Separate videos posted by Tasvir purportedly show protesters in several cities in Sistan-Baluchistan province, including the capital Zahedan, where protesters chanted “Death to Khamenei,” and Chabahar, where protesters removed and trampled the sign of a boulevard named by Ayatollah Khomeini. . All in one day9:46 Avoiding disinformation during the protests in Iran Iranian-Canadian journalist and Persian Mirror editor Mohammad Tajdolati tells us how he avoids misinformation when covering the Iranian protests State media reported that authorities held a funeral for seven people killed in the southwestern city of Ize in a terrorist attack. But the mother of a 10-year-old victim, Kian Pirfalak, could be heard in social media videos blaming security forces for her son’s shooting. A video posted on social media purporting to be from Pirfalak’s funeral showed protesters chanting “Khamenei we will bury you.” Reuters was unable to independently verify the authenticity of these videos. Fire and smoke are seen in Fuladshahr, Isfahan province, Iran in this still image from a social media video released on Friday and obtained by Reuters (Reuters) On Friday, Tasnim reported pro-government protesters in the northeastern city of Mashhad, where two members of the Basij militia were killed on Thursday. Two intelligence agents were killed in clashes with protesters on Thursday night, according to the Revolutionary Guards’ news site. It also said three other Revolutionary Guards and a Basij member were killed in Tehran and a Basij and a police member were killed in Kurdistan on Thursday.
