Iran protesters tell of brutal police response, hundreds of deaths and forced confessions

Warning security forces could be preparing to commit ‘massacre’ under cover of internet shutdownDemonstrators raged in the streets of Iran into Saturday morning, defying an escalating crackdown by authorities against the growing protest movement, now in its second week.An internet shutdown imposed by the authorities on Thursday has largely cut the protesters off from the rest of the world, but videos that trickled out of the country showed thousands of people in the streets of Tehran. They chanted “death to Khamenei,” in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and “long live the shah.” Continue reading...