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‘Shoot to Kill’: Accounts of brutal crackdown emerge from Iran
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A senior Iranian Health Ministry official said about 3,000 people had been killed across the country, but sought to shift the blame to “terrorists” fomenting unrest.
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Erika Solomon, Farnaz Fassihi, Sanam Mahoozi and Sanjana Varghese
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As the Iranian authorities impose a near-total communication blackout on a country convulsed by mass protests, videos and witness accounts slowly emerging suggest that the government is waging one of its de adliest crackdowns on unrest in more than a decade.
Eyewitnesses say government forces have begun opening fire, apparently with automatic weapons and at times seemingly indiscriminately, on unarmed protesters.
