The six thieves who participated in this heist have been arrested by the Lebanese army intelligence.

🔴 Update on the violent protests in Iran (The ⁠Cradle)

One week after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, protests against the ‘Guidance Patrol’ (morality police) turned into violent clashes in several cities in Iran.

Iranian state media reports at least 26 have died, including 5 ⁠security personnel, as of 22 ⁠September, while the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) puts the number at 36, saying that it is expected to rise.

⋯ The protests, which started with women burning their headscarves and cutting off their hair, quickly turned into violent, anti-religious riots with an emphasis on the compulsory hijab mandate in the Islamic Republic.

⋯ Despite mobile data restrictions on foreign domains and platforms, dozens of videos shared on social media showed rioters violently attacking police officers by stoning and beating them.

⋯ Rioters overturned and torched police vehicles, and destroyed public property.

They were seen burning a police officer alive (00:10) on at least one occasion.

⋯ Local Iranian media reports that dozens of ambulances were damaged by the protestors.

⋯ Protesters were also recorded forcibly removing the hijab of a woman on the street and following her around to remove her clothing.

⋯ Sky News reported that a local commander of the Basij, a volunteer branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was stabbed to death by rioters in the northeastern city of Mashhad on 21 September.

⋯ Another member of the Basij, identified as Abdolhossein Mojaddami, was also shot dead by the protesters, according to the police.

⋯ The rioters also set fire to the entrance of the office of Qeshm’s Friday Prayer Imam, torching it along with the photos of the founder of the republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war.

⋯ Iranian sentiments critical of the riots mirror views expressed in a US poll taken after the 2018 protests, which revealed that 84.5 percent of Iranians strongly agree that “the government should be more forceful to stop rioters who use violence or damage property."

⋯ "Police Force, Thank you. Thank you," chanted tens of thousands of Iranian women to counter the anti-muslim extremist Iranian minority.

Security forces arrested 9 prisoners who escaped yesterday evening from the police station in Jounieh.

⋯ 19 prisoners in total escaped overnight.

Most were booked for theft.

American officials informed the Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati that would Hezbullah attack the Israeli gas rigs at any time, the US will not bother restraint the Israeli response against Lebanon.

The death toll has rose to 92 according to Syrian authorities.

Several dozen are still missing.

Security forces arrest the boat owner who orchestrated this trip.

⋯ According to Lebanese army intelligence, each trip nets $300,000 in revenue for the mafias operating these networks.