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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/01/world/middleeast/iran-protests-deaths.html
Iran Convulsed by Worst Unrest in 40 Years
(New York Times) Farnaz Fassihi - Iran is experiencing its deadliest political unrest since the Islamic Revolution 40 years ago, with at least 180 people killed - and possibly hundreds more - as angry protests have been smothered in a government crackdown of unbridled force. In Mahshahr, witnesses and medical personnel said Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members surrounded, shot and killed 40 to 100 demonstrators in a marsh where they sought refuge. A local reporter in Mahshahr said the total number of people killed in three days of unrest had reached 130. In Shiraz and Shahriar, dozens were reported killed by security forces. In a statement posted Saturday on an opposition website, Mir Hussein Moussavi, an opposition leader and former presidential candidate who has been under house arrest since 2011, blamed Iran's supreme leader for the killings.