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About 35 people have been killed since the start of the protests against the regime in Iran, including four children, and law enforcement authorities in the country have arrested more than 1,200 protesters, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency.

The protests in the country are showing no signs of stopping, and they have spread to 250 locations in 27 out of a total of 31 provinces.

According to reports, the protests are currently the largest since 2022, which began following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of the Revolutionary Guards after she wore her hijab in an improper manner.

Foreign Pressure Mounts

Iran is struggling to contain anti-government protests amid warnings from U.S. President Donald Trump that Washington could intervene, a threat reinforced by the U.S. capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, officials and insiders said.

"These twin pressures have narrowed Tehran's room for manoeuvre, leaving leaders caught between public anger on the streets and hardening demands and threats from Washington, with few viable options and high risks on every path," one Iranian official told Reuters.

According to the report by Reuters, the view was echoed by two other officials and a former Iranian official who remains close to Iran's decision makers. All of them asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the situation.

A second official said that, after U.S. action in Venezuela, some of the authorities feared Iran could be "the next victim of Trump's aggressive foreign policy".