Watch: college students in iran chant 'wander away' at paramilitary tourist
A brand new video posted on line seems to reveal schoolgirls heckling a member of iran's feared paramilitary basij force, after anti-government protests sweeping the us of a unfold to the school room.
The teenagers wave their headscarves in the air and shout "wander away, basiji" at the person, who become asked to deal with them.
The bbc couldn't verify reports that it turned into filmed in shiraz on tuesday.
The basij has helped security forces crack down on the protests sparked by means of the death in custody of a younger woman.
Other footage circulated on social media suggests a person shouting "dying to the dictator" as some other group of women walk thru visitors inside the north-western city of sanandaj and an elderly girl clapping as unveiled schoolgirls chant "freedom, freedom, freedom" at a protest on a road.
And a fifth, reportedly filmed in the city of Karaj, shows schoolgirls seen screaming and running from a man, thought to be a member of the security forces in plainclothes, who is driving a motorcycle along a pavement.
The unrest was triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who fell into a coma hours after being detained by morality police on 13 September in Tehran for allegedly breaking the strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf. She died in hospital three days later.
Her family has alleged that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles. The police have denied that she was mistreated and said she suffered a heart attack.
The first protests took place in north-western Iran, where Ms Amini was from, and then spread rapidly across the country.
Young women have been at the forefront of the unrest, but it was not until Monday that schoolgirls began participating publicly in large numbers.
The BBC has mapped how the death of Mahsa Amini sparked widespread unrest in Iran
It came a day after security forces briefly besieged the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran in response to a protest on the campus. Dozens of students were reportedly beaten, blindfolded and taken away.
Monday also saw the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, break his silence on the unrest and accuse the US and Israel, Iran's arch-enemies, of orchestrating "riots". He also gave his full backing to the security forces, which have been accused by human rights groups of killing dozens of people.
On Tuesday, there were reports that the death toll resulting from clashes between security personnel and anti-government protesters in the south-eastern city of Zahedan had risen to 83.
Zahedan is the capital of Sistan Baluchistan province, which borders both Pakistan and Afghanistan, and has a sizeable Sunni Muslim population.
Authorities have said the security forces were attacked by armed Baluchi separatists - something the imam of the city's biggest mosque has denied.
The violence erupted on Friday, when protesters surrounded a police station and officers opened fire.
Tensions in the city had been compounded by the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by a police chief elsewhere in Sistan Baluchistan.
In another development on Tuesday, state media cited Tehran's chief prosecutor as saying the judiciary had opened an investigation into the death of Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old girl who went missing after taking part in protests in the capital on 20 September.
Her aunt has said that in her last message Nika told a friend that she was being chased by police, and that her family found her body in a mortuary at a detention centre 10 days later.
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