VIDEO: The number of victims in the women's revolution in Iran is growing, among the killed there are also children

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In the wave of protests that swept Iran after the death of the 22-year-old girl Mahsa Amini, at least 41 people have died so far, the state television reported today.

Protests after her death broke out in most of Iran's 31 provinces, Reuters reported.

State media acknowledged raising the official death toll to 17 – including five security officers, The Times of Israel reported.

However, the Oslo-based Iranian Organization for Human Rights estimates that at least 50 dissidents have been killed in the ongoing protests, while Amnesty International condemned "the sickening pattern of Iranian security forces deliberately and illegally firing live ammunition at protesters".

The group said it had reviewed video footage proving that "on the night of September 21 alone, at least 19 people, including at least three children, were killed in firing by security forces."

On Saturday – a day after pro-government protesters took to the streets demanding executions for those protesting Amini's death – students at the University of Tehran rallied and defiantly chanted “Death to the dictator,” according to a video released by the Iran Center for Human Rights.

The protests spread across the border into neighboring Iraq on Saturday, where exiled Iranian Kurds, many carrying posters of Mahsa Amini, chanted "Women, life, freedom" in a demonstration outside the United Nations base in the northern city of Erbil.

"We are not against religion and we are not against Islam," said protester Mason Majidi. - We want religion to be separated from politics.

In the meantime, protests were organized in Europe and the United States.

Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said yesterday that Iran must "resolutely deal with those who undermine the country's security and peace", reports Reuters citing a report by Iranian state media.

Raisi said this during a telephone conversation, in which he expressed his condolences to the family of a member of the security forces who was killed during a protest last week.

Raisi said pro-government demonstrations in Iran showed the full power of the Islamic Republic, and Reuters reported that pro-government protesters called for the execution of people protesting the regime after a 22-year-old girl died, they said, of torture by so-called morality police.

Amini, a girl from Iran's Kurdistan province, fell into a coma and died after being arrested by morality police in Tehran last week for disobeying hijab rules, sparking demonstrations in several areas, including the capital.

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