Overview
- Rights groups say they have verified hundreds of protester deaths and activist tallies now exceed 500, though the blackout hampers independent confirmation.
- Rubina (Robina) Aminian, a 23-year-old fashion student in Tehran, was reported shot from behind at close range in the head, with her family later forced to bury her by a roadside without a funeral.
- Doctors and witnesses describe security forces firing live rounds and pellets at close range, with patterns of head and neck wounds, overwhelmed hospitals, and accounts of shots from rooftops.
- Authorities have tightened curfews and deployed army reinforcements in several towns, escalated rhetoric by labeling unrest an ‘offence against God,’ and warned of severe penalties including the death penalty.
- The United States is weighing options up to potential strikes according to multiple reports, while Iranian officials threaten retaliation against U.S. and Israeli targets and Israel says it is closely monitoring developments.