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The Iranian authorities announced connected Friday (February 13, 2026) the constitution of a committee of enquiry to look into protests against the precocious outgo of living that turned into anti-government rallies that near thousands dead.
"A fact-finding committee has been formed with representatives from applicable institutions and is collecting documents and proceeding statements," Iranian authorities spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani told the section quality bureau ISNA.
The spokesperson did not specify whether the committee would lone absorption connected the economical demands that triggered the protests oregon whether it would besides analyse deaths during the protests.
"The last study volition beryllium published for nationalist accusation and further ineligible enactment aft the process is completed," she stated.
On Thursday (February 12, 2026), the authorities website published comments by President Masoud Pezeskhian saying, "We person assigned teams to analyse the causes (of the unrest), without providing further details.
The protests, which began successful precocious December earlier escalating connected January 8, near much than 3,000 dead, according to the authoritative count. Iranian authorities assertion that the immense bulk of victims were information forces oregon bystanders killed by "terrorists" moving for Israel and the United States.
Human rights advocacy groups based extracurricular Iran, however, impeach the information forces of targeting protesters. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reports that astatine slightest 7,005 radical were killed during the highest of the protests.
"We are ashamed that specified unfortunate events person occurred," Mr. Pezeshkian said, according to the study published connected the authorities website.
