(Bloomberg) — Iran for the first time acknowledged that its security forces shot and killed protesters last month during one of the most violent crackdowns on dissent since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The latter has a sizable Arab population, and the report claimed security forces clashed with a separatist group there. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Saturday that it was investigating reports that its forces had targeted and shot protesters, the semi-official Iranian Labour News Agency reported, citing Brigadier General Mohammadreza Yazdi. Separately, official figures showed 300 protesters remain in custody in Tehran. “Iran is killing perhaps thousands and thousands of people right now as we speak, that it why they cut off the internet so people can’t see what is going on,” he said on Sunday.

Source: National Post December 03, 2019 11:15 UTC