Tehran, Jan 14 (AP) Iranian state TV has said officials will hold a funeral Wednesday for the “martyrs and security defenders” who have died in the nationwide protests that have intensified in the last
week.
The semiofficial Tasnim news agency, believed to be close to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, on Tuesday stated that the funeral will take place at Tehran University and will be the first among many state funerals held for security forces in the coming days.
The death toll from days of bloody protests against the state rose to at least 2,000 people, according to activists on Tuesday. (AP) SCY SCY
