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An attack on a government building in southern Iran was carried out by citizens earlier, according to authorities, on the fourth day of demonstrations against the high cost of living and the economic crisis the Islamic Republic is experiencing.
At the same time, award-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi referred to the demonstrations of recent days as a "revolution" to "move history forward."
"The entrance gate of the provincial governor's building was damaged in an attack carried out by many people," said Hamed Otovar, head of the Judicial Authority in the city of Fassa, as reported by the judicial website Mizan, without specifying the circumstances or naming the protesters.
The area is located 780 kilometers south of the capital, Tehran, where a spontaneous movement against the high cost of living began on Sunday among merchants before spreading to several universities, quickly gaining momentum in many areas of the country.
"The rebellion to move history forward"
The protests that have rocked Iran in recent days are an “uprising” to “move history forward,” said Panahi, a 65-year-old director who has been imprisoned twice in Iran and won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last May for his film “A Simple Accident.”
“The shared pain has become a cry in the streets. For four days, people rose up, not to complain, but to demand change,” he wrote on Instagram.
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“This revolution is a will that has decided to continue, to move forward and to advance history,” added the director, an opponent of the Iranian regime. “When there is nothing left to lose, fear disappears. “Voices are uniting, silence is being broken and there is no turning back,” Panahi continued.
Today, the attorney general warned that the Iranian judiciary would show “harshness” if the protests were used to destabilize. “From a judicial point of view, peaceful protests in defense of livelihood (…) are understandable,” said Mohammad Movahedi-Azad, according to state television.
"There will be a harsh response"
“Any attempt to turn the economic protests into a tool for insecurity, destruction of public assets or implementation of fabricated scenarios abroad will be met with a legal, proportionate and strict response,” he warned.
Reacting to the protests, President Masoud Pezheskian said he was listening to the “legitimate demands” of the demonstrators.
On Tuesday, student protests erupted at at least ten universities in the capital Tehran and several other Iranian cities, according to the IRNA and ILNA news agencies.
Iranian media had not previously reported any new protests, although schools, banks and public institutions were closed by order of the authorities in most of the country due to the cold weather and to save energy.
Unlike in 2022
This movement against the high cost of living, at this stage, bears no resemblance to the large-scale protests that rocked Iran in late 2022, after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested
on suspicion of not wearing a headscarf properly, in violation of Iran's strict dress code, sparked a wave of anger that left hundreds dead, including dozens of security forces.
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