Meanwhile, the regime's scenario of what had happened has changed many times and is full of contradictions. At first, Fars News Agency, affiliated with the IRGC, reported that "2 people on a motorcycle opened fire at the security forces." Then Tasnim News Agency published a notice from IRGC public relations and reported that "6 people on 3 motorcycles attacked the Basij base and shot security forces". Later, the political-security deputy of the Isfahan Governor said in a TV interview: "1 motorcyclist opened fire at the Basij forces." In a statement, IRGC Public Relations denied "any terrorist attack on the Basij base in Isfahan". In another interview, the brother of one of the claimed victims who was allegedly killed that night, says that "a Peugeot 206 and two motorcyclists" shot those forces.

In lack of evidence in this case, the convicts are under the most severe tortures, to force them to confess. Saleh Mirhashemi's family says that all his teeth were broken under torture and his eardrum was torn. In a published audio file, Saleh says to his mother: "I did not have any weapons and did not even throw a firecracker at anyone."

Saman Yasin’s Death Sentence is Canceled

According to the announcement of Saman Seydi's lawyer, and Carlos Kasper, his political sponsor, the court has removed the death sentence from this protesting rapper.

Saman Seydi, known as Saman Yasin, was arrested on October 2nd and charged by the Revolutionary Court with "Hiraba by firing three aerial shots" and "gathering and collusion with the intention of acting against the security of the country". He was sentenced to death, while there was no document or proof of the charges attributed to him.

He committed suicide in prison on December 20 in protest against the charge of Hiraba, death sentence, and prison conditions, but fortunately, he was rescued.

Friday Protests in Zahedan

Once again, countless women, men, and children in Zahedan came to the streets after Friday prayers to protest, chanting “death to Khamenei!”

In his Friday prayer sermons, Molavi Abdul Hamid, Iran's top Sunni Muslim cleric, in response to Ali Khamenei's recent speech said: "Religious scholars and preachers cannot solve the country's problems with sermons and advice, but what is needed are intelligent, experienced and compassionate people."

On Wednesday, January 11, The Coordination and Solidarity Council of the official employees of the petroleum industry, issued a notice, calling all the industry’s official employees across the country to a nationwide strike and rally on January 17.