Key Highlights
- Iran’s nationwide unrest entered its thirteenth day Friday, as authorities imposed a sweeping internet blackout that largely cut the country off from the outside world and escalated threats of harsh punishment while anti-regime protests spread.
- Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) reported that at least 51 protesters, including nine children, have been killed, with hundreds more injured.
- Banafsheh Zand, an Iranian-American journalist and editor of the Iran So Far Away Substack, said demonstrations were expected to intensify later Friday despite the communications blackout."People are going to be pouring out into the streets," Zand told Fox News Digital.
- She described the unrest as unprecedented in the Islamic Republic’s history.
- "Absolutely, this is the first time in 47 years.
