Protesters blocking a road after authorities raised gasoline prices up to 200%.
“I explicitly announce that the numbers and figures that are being given by hostile groups are utter lies and the statistics have serious differences with what they announced,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said. “The names they have given are also lies,” Esmaili said, adding that they included people who were still alive and others who passed away normally.They were quickly quashed by authorities who also imposed a week-long near-total internet blackout.But London-based human rights group Amnesty International said on Monday that at least 208 people were killed in the crackdown.