—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Since noon today, three groups of ~50 people each tried to storm the governor's office, the judiciary office, and martyrs foundation office in Lordegan

The groups were organized and armed; they shot 3 members of the security forces, one is currently in critical condition.

In response, the Special Units of Iran's police were deployed, taking back control of all three offices and killing 2 attackers in the process.

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: The IDF found the body of an Israeli soldier, Ari Goldberg, who committed suicide in southern Israel

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu ring in the new year together at Mar-a-Lago.

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: Former Head of the IDF's Military Intelligence Research Department, Brigadier General Amit Saar, has died of cancer.

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: During an attack by violent rioters against a police station in Azna, Lorestan Province, three of the rioters were killed by Iranian security forces when they tried to obtain weapons from the armory

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— 🇮🇷 The number of protestors across all Iranian cities combined in the past 10 days of protest, based on visually confirmed evidence

Monday, on the 29th of December (4 days ago), a peak number of 2148 protestors was reached, most of them at the Tehran Bazaar.

Today has not yet been included, but protests have seen a shift in pattern; while the number of overall protestors has decreased, the number of violent incidents by small organized groups has increased.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: The shopkeepers (Bazar sellers) association of Esfahan, one of the most important and influential ones in Iran, denounces the riots and calls to support the Islamic Republic

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— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪/🇷🇺 NEW: Contrary to reports by U.S.-backed misinformation channels, the 'BELLA 1' ship has not been seized by the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy, despite being chased since at least December 21

Today, Russia officially asked the United States to stop pursuing the oil tanker, after its crew painted a Russian flag on the vessel, calling for Russian legal protection.

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— 🇮🇷 Current death toll of the protests:

– Two rioters killed in Kuhdasht while attempting to storm the municipality office and police station.

– Two Basijis killed in Kuhdasht in the same clash as mentioned above.

– Three rioters killed while attempting to steal weapons from the armory of a police station in Lordegan.

Total:
5 Rioters
2 Security forces

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— 🇮🇷 WATCH: Rioters randomly attack a pharmacy in Qazvin, northern Iran

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— 🇮🇷 WATCH: Some of the 'protestors' are so degenerate, they set the Holy Quran on fire in Hamadan

Those responsible have been arrested and will be executed.

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Currently, violent rioters in Hamadan are attacking a Basij station

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—❗️🇮🇷 WATCH: Violent thugs kick a police officer in Hamadan in the face

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—❗️🇮🇷 UPDATE: They caught the guys who did it, security forces shot them in the legs

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Violent thugs set fire to a religious seminary (Howzeh) in Farsan

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