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13 January 2020Tension is still very high in Tehran where student protests continue. Images of violence turn on social media. "The national security adviser suggested today that sanctions and protests 'stifled' Iran, forcing them to negotiate. In fact, I couldn't care less if they negotiate. It will depend entirely on them, but no nuclear weapons. and 'don't kill your protesters,' "US President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter, even in Farsi.

Videos are circulating on the web in which the Iranian authorities in Tehran apparently open fire on protesters protesting the regime, injuring several people. The international press reports. Yesterday hundreds of people challenged the massive presence of security forces marching in the capital and holding an evening vigil in Azadi square. According to a witness cited by the Guardian, security forces initially launched tear gas to disperse the crowd, then opened fire. "It was a very bad situation," said the woman in a message to activist Masih Alinejad. The woman provided a video showing bloodstains on the sidewalk near the square, one of many that Iranian activists circulated between yesterday evening and this morning. "It's the blood of our people," says a woman in a movie. "I saw seven people shoot," says one man in another clip. "There was blood everywhere."

The Guardian points out that the content of the videos has not been verified. Tehran police said that no bullets were fired during the events of last night. "The police did not shoot at the protests because the agents in the capital had been ordered to use restraint," said spokesman Hossein Rahimi.

Representative Khamenei: "Revenge against the USA is not over"
Iran's "revenge" against the United States for the killing in Iraq of the Quds Force commander, General Qassem Soleimani has not yet been completed. This was stated by the representative of the Supreme Guide, Ali Khamenei, in the elite corps of the Guardians of the Revolution, announcing new reprisals after the launch of missiles against bases in Iraq used by American troops.

"We have not yet completed our revenge against the enemies for killing Soleimani and his companions," said Ali Shirazi, quoted by the news agency 'Fars'. "The retaliatory action will not necessarily be conducted by Iran alone," added Shirazi, stressing that the so-called "resistance front" will also have an "active" role in "revenge".

The arrest of the British ambassador
The behavior of the British ambassador to Iran, Rob Macaire, was "completely unacceptable and unprofessional", said the spokesman for the Iranian government, Ali Rabiei, quoted in the official media of the Islamic Republic.

Macaire was arrested yesterday by the Iranian authorities on charges of inciting protests at Tehran's Amir Kabir University, where students protested against the shooting down of the Ukrainian plane with 176 people on board caused by an error by Iranian forces .

The ambassador assured that "he was merely taking part in a vigil for the victims of the plane crash", specifying that he left the post when some started chanting anti-government slogans.