IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 30
The regime may inadvertently push the ongoing protests to become an enduring uprising against the political establishment.
Anti-regime protests occurred in at least 22 cities in 15 provinces.
Unidentified individuals killed a Law Enforcement Command officer in Iranshahr, Sistan and Baluchistan Province.
The IRGC Intelligence Organization arrested three individuals who were preparing Molotov cocktails in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province.
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Iranian cleric Mehdi Baqeri who sits on the parliament’s Legal Commission, says the operation of hijab “morality” police has been temporarily halted because of a shortage of police forces. “For now the priority is national security, but it’s wrong to think we back down on hijab.”
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Regime officials have begun indicting and sentencing arrested protesters as part of the increasingly harsh and uncompromising stance that the regime has adopted toward the ongoing protests.
Regime officials have begun using increasingly harsh rhetoric toward the protests, framing the demonstrations and the Shiraz terror attack as connected and part of the Western-led hybrid war against Iran.
At least 30 anti-regime protests occurred in 17 cities in 14 provinces.
Parliamentarian Mehdi Bagheri stated that the Law Enforcement Command (LEC) is not currently operating the guidance patrol (morality patrol) because of manpower shortages.
Medical professionals in Kurdistan Province condemned the regime crackdown on October 31, according to unverified social media reports.
Reformist-affiliated Ham Miham newspaper published an article calling on LEC officers to protect Iranian protesters from the LEC Special Units—the regime's highly trained, anti-riot police.
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