[UPDATE-Jan 11] Iran’s Internet Remains Off After 48 Hours Amid Deadly Anti-Regime Protests

Khamenei said to put IRGC on highest alert as protests enter 14th day

Unconfirmed report claims hundreds killed. Iran blames violence on US, Israel. Major Iranian cities were gripped overnight Friday by new mass rallies denouncing the Islamic Republic, as activists on Saturday expressed fear that authorities were intensifying their suppression of the demonstrations under cover of an internet blackout.

The two weeks of protests have posed one of the biggest challenges to the theocratic authorities who have ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, although Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has expressed defiance and blamed the United States.

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Following the movement’s largest protests yet on Thursday, new demonstrations took place late Friday, according to images verified by AFP and other videos published on social media.

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