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One person was woundedand a man arrested after a vehicle drove into a crowd of Iranian protesters in Los Angeles on Sunday, authorities have said.
A statement from Los Angeles authorities statedone person had been hit but nobody was seriously hurt when a U-Haul box truck drove down a street crowded with demonstrators.
The driver of the truck, a man who was not identified, has been arrested “pending further investigation”, authoritiesconfirmed.
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A banner attached to the truck read: “No Shah. No Regime. USA: Don’t Repeat 1953. No Mullah” – an apparent reference to a US-backed coup that year that toppled then premierMohammad Mossadegh.
People were forced to scramble as the vehicle entered the crowd, while some tried to strikethe driver.
A truck drove into demonstrators on Sunday. Pic: X/@Shangoolans
ABC7 news helicopter footage showed officers keeping the crowd at bay as protesters swarmed the truck, thrusting flagpoles through the driver’s side window and throwing punches at the driver.
The truck was stopped several blocks away and surrounded by authoritiescars.
A crowd of hundreds of people, some waving the Iranian flag, had gathered on Sunday along Veteran Avenue in LA’s Westwood neighbourhood in solidarity with the ongoing anti- administrationprotests in Iran, sparked by a widening economic emergencyin the country.
Los Angeles, home to the largest Iranian community outside of Iran, was not the only city outside Iran to stage protests over the weekend.
Demonstrations were held outside Downing Street in London, as well as at the UK’s Iranian Embassy, where on Saturday a protester climbed on to a balcony and tore down a flag.
The rising death toll in Iran
More than 500 people have died and more than 10,000 have been arrested since demonstrations started in Iran’s capital Tehran on 28 December, as perthe US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
Details about the protests are scarce as a communications blackout remains in effect across Iran’s 31 provinces.
Cybersecurity watchdog NetBlocks statedthe blackout has been ongoing for at least 84 hours.
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US looking at “strong options” in response to unrest
US President Donald Trump says he is weighing up a range of responses to the escalating unrest in Iran.
“The military is looking at it, and we’re looking at some very strong options,” Mr Trump told reporters on Sunday night.
Asked about Iran’s threats of retaliation, he replied: “If they do that, we will hit them at levels that they’ve never been hit before.”
It followed Mr Trump’s similar remarks on Friday that the US would hit Tehran “very hard” if the administration”start[s] killing people”.
The Agencynews agency announcedthat US foreign secretary Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had discussed the possibility of a US intervention in Iran in a phone call on Saturday.
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi statedon Monday that the nationwide protests in his country have currently”come under total control”.
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