Authorities have not specified the number of people killed during the November demonstrations, the broadest since the 1979 revolution that ushered in Iran’s theocratic government. But the Bakhtiari family was undeterred. Then, on Tuesday, authorities arrested several members of the Bakhtiari family, according to a report from the semiofficial Mehr News Agency. Pouya Bakhtiari’s grandparents on his father’s side, along with other family members and supporters, still made it to the cemetery Thursday. https://t.co/Yzvf4q5Jf4 — Golnaz Esfandiari (@GEsfandiari) December 26, 2019On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized the arrest of the Bakhtiari family members in a tweet.

Source: Washington Post December 26, 2019 19:52 UTC