Internet blackout hampering efforts to verify if violent crackdown has blunted movement’s momentum
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Iran’s foreign minister has claimed the situation in the country has “come under total control” as authorities carry out a brutal crackdown against the nationwide protest movement.
Abbas Araghchi made the comments to foreign diplomats in Tehran, without supplying evidence.
The few messages and videos to have emerged from Iran overnight showed that protests were continuing, but an ongoing internet blackout made it difficult to judge if the authorities’ use of violence had been effective in blunting the movement’s momentum.
