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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/world/middleeast/iran-protests-internet.html
Iran Declares Protests Are Over, But the Evidence Suggests Otherwise
(New York Times) Farnaz Fassihi and Rick Gladstone - Iranian authorities moved Thursday to project the appearance of normalcy after a week of violent protests over gasoline price increases, partly restoring Internet access. But doctors reported that hospitals were overfilled with people injured in the protests. The Health Ministry ordered all hospitals in Tehran and other cities to cancel elective surgeries because of the influx of emergency cases. President Trump wrote on Twitter, "The regime has shut down their entire Internet System so that the Great Iranian people cannot talk about the tremendous violence taking place within the country." Three residents of Tehran reached by phone said that unrest persisted in middle-class and working-class neighborhoods. They said there were swarms of anti-riot police on motorcycles and Special Forces lined up on nearly every major road. Plainclothes Basij militia members were also out on the streets. "We are not leaving the house unless we have to and nearly all official business has come to a halt," said one resident.