with me is bbc persian service's rana rahimpour. let us get the latest.ry widespread, there have been protests before in iran, but these are in a number of different towns and cities. that is the difficulties the iranians security officers have. before it was concentrated in tehran and major cities and it was more easy to contain them. we are receiving reports of scattered protests, smaller in size, all over the country and little towns and cities. at least two security officers have been killed overnight, although the iranians authorities say that last night the protests were smaller compared to the previous nights, but at least 100 people have been arrested and nine people have been killed, which suggests it is not as small as the iranians authorities say, but it is very difficult to confirm anything because they have cracked down on the internet and very little is coming out of the country. is the crackdown on social media successful from the point of view of the authorities? it seems very successful because we are the bbc persian service were receivin

here's kasra naji of the bbc persian service.h day of anti—government protests. these protesters are shouting death to the dictator, a reference to iran's supreme leader. the protests are the most serious challenge to the iranian clerical regime for many years. as the night fell, there were reports of demonstrations from at least a dozen or so cities up and down the country. president rouhani has finally made a comment on the unrest, days after they started, the first iranian leader to do so. he said iranians had a right to protest but not to violence and destruction. the wave of demonstrations throughout the country started on thursday here in mashhad in the north—east with what was supposed to be a small protest by the hardliners to criticise the economic policies of the government of president rouhani, something that quickly got out of control. earlier in the day, the government moved to limit access in iran to the internet and to uphiller social media apps like telegram. but in spite of these efforts, more and more videos are

let's speak to kasra naji from the bbc persian service. good to see you.tart with this specific targeting the head of the judiciary. what is this specific targeting the head of thejudiciary. what is going on. it's interesting, he's the head of the judiciary, effectively the chief justice. a very big person in iran. a very close associate of the ayatolla h a very close associate of the ayatollah harmonised. and he's obviously head ofjudiciary, accused ofa obviously head ofjudiciary, accused of a range of abuses of human rights in iran. so in terms of iranians hearing this, it's a popular thing for the us to do, and the iranians are saying that this is crossing red lines, they will retaliate, i am not sure of what they are going to do but we will wait and see. interesting, crossing a red line, because international sanctions have been applied before. this is the most high profile, if you like. it comes at a time when a time when iran's human rights situation, after the recent unrest in iran, in the news, in the forefront of everyone's minds, that is an inter

i'm joined now by rana rahimpour from the bbc persian service. what do we know?ws out of the country, but according to one of the intelligence officers there has been an attack, they say a riot has shot dead a police officer. it seems to be in dead a police officer. it seems to beina dead a police officer. it seems to be in a place in the centre of the country. if it is true, we have received videos, and if we can verify them, there is very violent protests going on. we can hear shots being fired and a government building is set on fire. but we have to make sure that those are accurate stories that we are getting out of the country. with all of those caveats in place, you need to find out if this is true or not, but if a police officer has been shot, what is the response likely to be from the authorities? very likely that it will be escalated, because so far the iranian establishment has shown restraint and they have not used a heavy hand because it is very easy for them to get involved and kill many of the protesters as they did in 2009, and even today one of th

i'm joined now by rana rahimpour from the bbc persian service.ese people died? reports are almost impossible to verify because the internet is shut down. people say it takes half an hourto shut down. people say it takes half an hour to write a tweet so we haven't really received any footage and anything confirms almost impossible. state television said about ten people have been killed overnight, they say they were rioters and some of them were armed but it's impossible to find out. but protesters say they have been killed by government forces.|j protesters say they have been killed by government forces. i suppose the evidence that these are serious protests is the fact president rouhani was drawn to make these very clear comments that yes you have a right to protest but no you don't have a right to be involved in violence, which sort of implies they are about to take action of some kind to try and bring these protests to order. yes, and that's why he's given two speeches in the last 24 hours, clearly they feel there is serious tension. on top of

i've been getting some analysis from kasra naji from the bbc persian service, who said there is concernggestions president trump wants to renegotiate iran's nuclear deal. it isa it is a very serious situation. the europeans and the chinese and the russians are all against it and they wa nt to russians are all against it and they want to make sure that this nuclear deal survives and the european countries have been meeting a couple of days ago in brussels with the iran prime minister, reiterating that this is a very good deal for world security and this basically stops iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. at least until 2025. it is ten years. but obviously hardliners in the us and president trump are unhappy with this and they want to get rid of it. how far this might go i have no idea but things are getting pretty serious. president trump is saying that this is the last time he will waive sanctions on iran because of the nuclear deal and he wants to start re—negotiating the deal. renegotiating two things he wa nts deal. renegotiating two things he wants done. 0ne deal. renegotiating two

here's kasra naji of the bbc persian service.ring the fourth day of anti—government protest. these protesters are shouting death to the dictator, a reference to iran's supreme dictator, a reference to iran's supreme leader. the protest are the most serious challenge to the iranians clerical regime for many yea rs. as iranians clerical regime for many years. as the night fell, there were reports of demonstrations from at least a dozen or so cities up and down the country. president hassan rouhani has finally made a comment on the unrest days after they had started, the first top uranium leader to goose as. —— to do so. translation: protest within a illegal framework is free, but u nrest illegal framework is free, but unrest is not an atmosphere which people will tolerate. the wave of demonstrations throughout the country demonstrations throughout the cou ntry started demonstrations throughout the country started on thursday in the north—east, with what was supposed to bea north—east, with what was supposed to be a small protest sp

i've been getting some analysis from kasra naji from the bbc persian service, who said there is concernotiate iran's nuclear deal. a little earlier i spoke to the iranian writer and journalist amir taheri, who told me america have deep concerns about iran. they are worried because iran has a great role in the stability of the middle east. the islamic republic is holding 36 hostages including americans and british and dual nationals and so on and unless the iranian problem as a whole is solved, you cannot settle the middle east at all. the 0bama approach appeared to be to say we would isolate the question of the nuclear programme and deal with that and only with that, and that way we will get a deal. the approach of this administration seems to be more all encompassing. is there actually a realistic prospect of forcing iran back to the negotiating table to talk about some of these other things such as human rights and the missile programme? i think there is. unless you have a holistic approach the problem will not be solved because the country cannot behave in different ways on different

with me is bbc persian service's rana rahimpour. let's analyse what is going on.supreme leader for the first time since these protests started. and as usual, he blamed the enemies. he said they have united against islamic establishment. they are using money, weapons, intelligent and politics to cause trouble for us... that is the excerpt of what we have received from a weekly meeting, so he didn't feel it was significant enough to have an address to the nation, to ask them to calm down. it was a weekly meeting with a number of families, where it was said that the enemies were behind it. he doesn't seem enemies were behind it. he doesn't seem to take any responsibility, despite the fact that many of the people that have been protesting in the last six days the queues and blame him for many of the problem is that the country is facing right now. how big a threat to the regime do you think these protests are? are they growing all reducing in scale, would you say? it is difficult to say how big it is. the authorities say how big it is. the authorities say last night's

we can now speak with rana from the bbc persian service. are these protests continue in? authorities say the major cities, including the capital, were calm, the videos we have received on social media from the country shows that there are antiriot police and a heavy number of security forces deployed in many of the major cities. rana, for the moment, thank you very much. we will be talking about that bit later with an from there. —— with an expert from there. protests against increases to rail fares are being held at a number of stations in scotland today. it comes as scotrail fares increase by an average of 3.2% this year. train operators across the uk say the biggest rise in railfares for five years is necessary to address "decades of under investment". the queen is to make a rare apperance in a television documentary to comment on the experience of her coronation. in the film, which is broadcast next week, the queen is reunited with the original crown from the day. there'll also be interviews from those that took part in the 1953 coronation, including a maid of honour

with me is bbc persian service's jiyar gol.d, all around the country, and the nature of the protests. what is the latest? in the past 2a hours, what we are hearing from the underground, the footage we are receiving through social media and other platforms and social media and other platforms and social media, in the past 2a hours, we have around 1a towns and cities, small towns like the one on the border with iraq, there have been unrest, and some of those small places, violent unrest, russia is between security forces and protesters. and in some areas, in a small town, people attacked the militia, some of the officers belonged to the ayatollah. so in fa ct, belonged to the ayatollah. so in fact, in small towns the people are more angry and the protests are attacking the bases of the security forces. you talk about anger, the regime is blaming foreign interests for making this spiral, as it has done. do the tweets we read from donald trump, which are in themselves quite angry, does that play into the regime's hands? definitely.