Tehran Times - Top MP Mojtaba Zonnour has said 230 people were killed during the protests in November 2019. In these incidents, 230 people were killed, while 6 of them were official and security forces, Zonnour said on Monday. IRNA reported. 20 percent of those who were killed were in the scene as active forces in favor of order and security,...

Tehran Times - Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli has suggested that nearly 200 to 225 people were killed during the widespread protests in November 2019. In remarks on national television on Saturday night, Rahmani-Fazli said the death toll will be announced in the coming days, but explained that some 40 or 45 people, meaning about ...

Financial Tribune - Fuel cards that hold 360 liters of gasoline will not be charged from April, head of the Planning Department of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company said. Motorists can save maximum 360 liters of gasoline in their cards for six months and after that their card will not be charged unless they use the gasoline,...

Foreign Policy |ROHOLLAH FAGHIHI: Grief and anger seized Iranians after the U.S. killing of Gen. Qassem Suleimani last Friday. Enormous numbers of people took to the streets in cities across the country to commemorate him. It was a passionate outcry in favor of a figure whom American media described as the worlds No. 1 bad guy. But while Suleimani ...

Financial Tribune - The parliamentary body responsible for reviewing the budget bill, the Majlis Joint Commission, has approved the pooling of next years revenues gained from the implementation of the Targeted Subsidies Law of 2010 and those earned from raising gasoline price since mid-November 2019. According to Hadi Qavami, the spokesman of the ...

Radio Farda - The spokesman for Iran's Judiciary has once again evaded responsibility to announce the number of protesters killed during the mid-November anti-Islamic Republic protests. "It is the responsibility of Iran's Security Council (ISC) to publish the relevant data," Gholam Hossein Esmaeili said at a press conference on Tuesday, December ...

MNA Irans Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri has rejected rumors about the arrest of foreign nationals during the recent unrest in the country. Asked by Mehr News Agency correspondent about rumors of the arrest of two French nationals or any foreign nationals in general, Montazeri said that no, we had no such arrests. He made the remarks ...

Iran Review | Alireza Hashemi: The Iranian government imposed petrol rationing and raised gasoline prices from 50 percent to 200 percent mid-November. Many Iranians were shocked by the move, which was not preceded or followed by adequate explanation on the part of the government. People were generally worried about yet another squeeze on living ...

MNA |Ebrahim Fallahi: Following the implementation of the gasoline rationing scheme, the government has been promoting the use of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as a replacement for gasoline, and has declared the mentioned fuel as the countrys national fuel. It has been said that people have also been welcoming CNG after the rationing because ...

Reuters - Iranian authorities have shut down mobile internet access to overseas sites in several provinces, an Iranian news agency reported on Wednesday, a day before new protests called for on social media. Social media posts and some relatives of people killed in unrest last month over hikes in gasoline prices have called for renewed protests ...

Bloomberg - A senior official in the office of Irans Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denied a report the supreme leader ordered President Hassan Rouhani to crack down on protesters. According to the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, the official dismissed a Reuters report Monday that Ayatollah Khamenei met with Rouhani and members of the Cabinet ...

Press TV - Irans daily consumption of gasoline has dropped by almost a sixth more than a month after the government announced its controversial fuel price hikes. A senior Oil Ministry official said on Monday that the total gasoline pumped into the cars across the country had decreased to 75.5 million liters a day on average in the month ending December ...

Financial Tribune - Rationing gasoline and raising pump prices by 200% that started on Nov. 15 will have no substantial effect on curbing fuel smuggling, says a deputy chief of the Goods and Foreign Exchange Anti-Smuggling Headquarters. Close to 10 million liters of fuel is smuggled every day, a big proportion of which is for diesel and gasoline ...

Bourse and Bazaar | Ellie Geranmayeh: The Middle East is facing a wave of protestswith the latest unrest in Iran sweeping the country in November. For the moment, a swift government crackdown that reportedly left at least 208 dead has largely brought the protests to an end. An unprecedented internet shutdown during the unrest means that information ...

Al-Monitor - The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, issued a warning to the United States about provoking unrest in Iran. Iran was rocked by protests Nov. 16 after President Hassan Rouhani announced fuel subsidy cuts, leading to sharp increases in the price of gasoline. According to Amnesty International, over 200 people ...

FNA - Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani censured the government of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for not informing the society before the sudden execution of the gas price hike plan. A calamity occurred due to a wrong decision that led to the death and injury of several people and damage to some ...

Tehran Times | Mohammad Ghaderi: The main question that has been raised in regard to the events of the past few weeks that followed the gasoline price reform is about the number of the dead and why it has not been announced yet? Opposition media, focusing on the death toll, pursue a completely biased agenda to create mistrust in people and incite ...

Tasnim Secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said the majority of those killed in last months protests in Tehran province over gasoline price hikes were not even involved in any of the protests. Speaking Thursday in a meeting with families of some of the victims of the riots in western cities of the province,...

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that national internet will be provided in parallel with foreign internet and that the improvement does not mean cut-off of foreign internet. The government wants people to enjoy strong domestic internet network along with the foreign internet, the president said at the cabinet session held in Tehran ...

MNA Iranian President's Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi said on Wednesday that a number of countries including the US, Israeli regime, some regional countries and Europeans had hoped to gain their desired results from the recent unrest in Iran. They had prepared plans and conducted some interviews but lost hope soon after when the situation was brought ...