Heading home after joining a protest in Tehran on 8 January, Reza put his arms around his wife Maryam to protect her. “Suddenly, I felt my arm go light – there was only her jacket in my hands,” he told a family member, who later spoke to BBC Persian. Maryam had been fatally shot – and they had no idea where the bullet had come from.
The current protests gripping Iran began as demonstrations against the economic conditions in the country.
Sky's international correspondent @alexrossiSKY reports on how Iran's regime is trying to seize back control of the narrative.
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