As anti government process continue In much of the country, activists say security forces fired on dozens of people as they left friday prayers in the southern city.

Robin Brandt reports six weeks in and these protests show no sign of abating the opposite.

In fact, this is the scene of violent confrontation again.

Independent observers claim the crackdown by security forces across Iran has killed at least 160 people and the tactics continue to be unbearably indiscriminate.

I saw footage of a teenager, a child shot in the head that who apparently has been killed and we haven't got the exact figures for how many people have died, how many people have been injured today.

But as you said from the footage that we saw, we can say certainly that that they opened fire again with live ammunition.

What started out as a protest over the death of a young woman in custody because of how she wore her hijab is now a chaotic and increasingly deadly confrontation Between some of Iran's people and its religious leaders.

Any tactic that they had used in previous rounds of protests, including in 2009 and 2017 to crack down and get people to go back home.

Those tactics are working this time around.

There's a wave of anger in these protests that is unlike anything I personally have ever seen, I've been reporting from Iran about protester for years and years and yet this is unique.

Iran's military has claimed that the US was conspiring with others to spark the riots.

Meanwhile, the United Nations has raised a list of issues with Iran that it's deeply worried about of particular concern is information that authorities have been moving injured protesters from hospitals to detention facilities, refused to release the bodies of those killed to their families and delivered the deceased on the condition that their families do not hold a funeral or that their families do not speak to the media.

In one protest video verified by the news agency, a F.

P people are seen shouting death to the dictator that's aimed at Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

As the demonstrations continue in various cities.

International human rights campaigners say there's now a serious risk of mass killings.

Robin brands BBC news, Nobody from BBC Persian welcome to you.

You've been speaking to sources inside the country.

What are they telling you?

Just on the way here, I was talking to a source close to the family of Nico show me the 16 year old who was killed in the early days of the protest as she has become now a household name.

So they've been telling me yesterday they held an event at her gravesite and security forces started shooting at the protesters.

Now I've been hearing that 60 people have actually been arrested.

from that memorial and they've been taken to unknown locations.

Some of these detainees are the very close relatives of Nikos Academy and the family is extremely concerned about the whereabouts of them.

Also yesterday I managed to confirm the death of another 19 year old bright young man.

He was a chef, he was just 19 and two days before he did, two days before his birthday at nine o'clock.

He lives off, he leaves his restaurant and then he is getting killed by severe blows to his head with baton.

So you've been covering this since the beginning, Is your sense that more than a month on the protesters escalating across the country.

And so is the response from the regime definitely escalating what we've seen.

This is unprecedented.

We have never seen protests this long and this widespread across the country and it's been going on for a month.

No sign of it.

Fizzling out.

What we've seen actually overnight my colleagues at BBC Persian a few hours ago, they managed to obtain videos that security forces raided dormitory and they're dragging students from inside the dorm and they're calling out for help is really horrifying images and across the universities and schools in Iran and also streets.

We've seen protests still going on now.

We've seen worldwide process people coming out in solidarity with what's happening in Iran.

Iranians all over the world have also seen the U.

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Say they want to make this an issue in the next week.

Is that making any difference?

That's correct.

So it has already started in new Zealand and two.

I'm going to Trafalgar Square myself to cover this and I've been there before as well.

It's usually the crowd that you see there, it's unprecedented for Iranians to be dissed united from all walks of life.

You see Iranians united from different ethnicities, they're there and they're chanting the same slogans that people in cities like Tehran and Shiraz are chanting, Let's keep in mind that last week in Berlin we had a protest that over 100,000 people showed up and that was I think that one of the biggest protests and that shows the solidarity of Iranian people, Iranian Iranian diaspora outside the country, with the Iranians inside the country.