Reuters has reported that 8 people have been killed during protests against the Iranian Islamist government’s fraudulent parliamentary elections held Friday. The Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI) has reported several other incidents in which Iranian security forces have brutally attempted to repress demonstrations against the sham, rigged elections. The protests occurred in several regions of the country, including the capital city Tehran, and Abadan, Firouzabad, Arak, Izeh, Marivan, Eshfahan, Hamadan, and Malekan.

SMCCDI reported,

Tehran has been placed under strict martial law with regime security forces deployed throughout the city. In spite of the menacing security forces, young people are circulating on motorized cycles calling for an overthrow of the regime. The general impression found among residents is that the regime must be removed, if necessary, by armed force.

According to Reuters,

Four died in the town of Firouzabad in the southern Fars province, in protests on Saturday when the governor's office declared an unexpectedly high turnout in a tight race between a reformist and an Islamic conservative candidate.

"People were calling for the votes to be recounted to stop any possibility of vote-rigging," a local official, who declined to be named, told Reuters.

Another four were killed in the southwestern Khuzestan province when police clashed with a group of people protesting about election results in the town of Izeh, the ISNA students news agency reported, citing an unnamed local official.

The protesters had tried to storm the governor's office and attacked government and judiciary buildings in the town, the official said.

In Firouzabad, a crowd of several hundred people grew angry after one protester was shot and wounded by police.

Tensions in Iran have been on the rise since Iran’s Islamist dictators disqualified 2,530 of the 8,157 candidates standing for election to parliament (“Majlis”). The Islamists have engineered a coup de tat. All the candidates disqualified were “moderates/reformists,” and included 80 already-sitting members of parliament. The terror-masters have effectively cleansed Iranian government of anyone they disapproved of. About 550 candidates -- whom the Islamists had approved -- voluntarily withdrew from the elections, thus making the planned poll even more illegitimate.

Top Iranian thug Ayatollah Khamenei yesterday declared the elections to be "completely credible," and added,

Those who lost the elections were America, Zionism and the enemies of the Iranian nation.

The judgement of American imperialists who have been talking nonsense about these elections is absolutely worthless.

Khamenei was referring to the U.S. State Department’s criticism of the election process. The Islamists already started moving to repress opposition just days before the election by shutting down two major Iranian newspapers. About 100 opposition newspapers have been forcibly closed in the past four years. Many journalists and publishers have been jailed for opposing the Islamist regime. The “reform” process started in Iran 6 years ago is now dead in the water.