AFP, TEHRANIran yesterday rejected as “utter lies” unofficial casualty figures given for street violence that erupted last month during demonstrations against a shock decision to hike fuel prices. Protests erupted in Iran on Nov. 15 after the announcement that gasoline prices were going up by as much as 200 percent with immediate effect. “They announced some numbers as well as some names... Their claimed numbers are sheer lies and fabricated,” he said in remarks aired on state television. US President Donald Trump yesterday said that Iran was killing thousands of people for protesting and urged the world to take more notice. “Not just small numbers which are bad, big numbers which are really bad, and really big numbers ...

Source: Taipei Times December 03, 2019 15:56 UTC