Clashes broke out in many cities of Iran on Wednesday, which marked the third anniversary of the popular protests against fuel price increases in November 2019. Activists chanted the slogan “We will fight! We will die!” around bonfires overnight in Tehran.

In widely shared videos on the social media, state forces are seen to open fire on passengers at a metro station, causing them to scream in panic.

In East Kurdistan, state forces opened fire on protestors in many cities. It is reported that two people were killed in Sine and one person in Kamyaran.

According to official state news agency Irna, two revolutionary guards and a member of the state-backed paramilitary Basij group were killed in the cities of Bokan and Kamyaran in East Kurdistan and Shiraz in the south of Iran.

According to the Iranian Human Rights Organization (IHR), at least 326 activists, 43 of them children, have been murdered since September 16, when Mahsa Amini was murdered by the notorious morality police in Tehran. At least 123 of them died in Sistan-Baluchistan province.

According to the IHR, more than 15,000 people have been arrested. State officials argue that this number does not reflect the reality. While the United Nations says that 14 thousand people, including children, are under arrest, some opposition sources claim that more than 30 thousand are under arrest.

According to human rights organizations, detainees are prevented from meeting with their lawyers and are subjected to physical and psychological torture to make pro-government statements.

In the meantime, the Iranian judiciary has sentenced three more demonstrators to death. On Sunday, a court in Tehran sentenced an activist to death on several charges, including "setting fire to a public building, disturbing public order, conspiring to commit crimes against national security and being an enemy of God".