Senior member of the Motalefeh Party says 40 of them were martyred because the police, by the leader’s order, did not have weapons.
Hamidreza Taraqi stated that unlike in 2019 when the government ordered to quickly resolve the crisis and many were killed, the Supreme Leader did not allow the police to confront the people with weapons in this instance. This resulted in more than 2,500 police officers being injured and over 40 of them being martyred, as they did not have orders to shoot.