Khaberni - A senior member of the Iranian parliament said on Monday that Tehran might lift the ban on internet services within a few days, after the authorities had cut communications and used excessive force to suppress protests in the worst internal disturbances since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
In the latest sign of the authorities' loosening grip, state television appeared to have been hacked late Sunday, briefly showing speeches by U.S. President Donald Trump and the last Shah of Iran's son, who lives in exile.
The streets in Iran have been relatively quiet for a week since the suppression of the anti-government protests that began in late December.
An Iranian official who requested anonymity said the confirmed death toll had risen to over five thousand people, including 500 security personnel, and some of the fiercest clashes occurred in predominantly Kurdish areas in the northwest of the country.
Opponents accuse the authorities of shooting at peaceful protesters to crush the opposition. The rulers of Iran claim that armed crowds instigated by foreign enemies attacked hospitals and mosques.
The death toll in this wave significantly exceeds those in two previous waves of anti-government disturbances suppressed by the authorities in 2022 and 2009. The violence prompted repeated threats from Trump of military intervention, but he has backed down from that stance since the widescale killing stopped.
