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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. Coming to you live from London,

I'm Gary O'Donohue. Coming up on the programme, how one Russian woman lured men from Syria, Egypt and Yemen to fight in Ukraine.

First, though, we turn to Iran, where officials say around 2,000 people, including members of the security forces,

have been killed in successive nights of anti-government protests, which it says have now been brought under full control.

Internet traffic is intermittent, though some people have managed to use telephones to communicate

with people inside the country. It appears that the protests may have slowed somewhat,

though firm information is still hard to come by. Nevertheless, President Trump has urged Iranians to keep on

protesting and declared that help is on its way. In a post on truth social, Mr. Trump didn't specify

what he meant, but said what he called the killers and abusers would pay a big price in his words.

In terms of the situation on the streets,

there's an account that BBC Persian has received

about what happened at the end of last week.

We've voiced up the words of a man from the city of Rashd in northern Iran.

In Rushd, they killed hundreds of people. They made piles of bodies.

The massacre is unprecedented. They put hundreds of corpses in the cemetery. All the towns in the

province of Ghilan have erupted, every single town without exception. In Rudbar on Thursday and Friday

nights, they killed so many people that no one came out on Saturday

All the banks were set on fire

Mosques were set ablaze

I think the security forces did it

The sound of gunfire didn't stop all night

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