Iran on Saturday began construction on a new nuclear power plant in the country's southwest, Iranian state TV announced.
In a possibly related move, Iran's semi-official IRNA news agency late Saturday quoted a top prosecutor as saying officials had"closed" the morality police force responsible for enforcing the dress code. It gave no details.
Iran has one nuclear power plant at its southern port of Bushehr that went online in 2011 with help from Russia, but also several underground nuclear facilities. The move was condemned by Germany, France and Britain, the three Western European nations that remain in the Iran nuclear deal. Recent attempts to revive Iran's 2015 nuclear deal, which eased sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, have stalled.
In a statement issued by the state-run IRNA news agency Saturday, the country's national security council announced that some 200 people have been killed during the protests, the body's first official word on the casualties. Last week, Iranian Gen. Amir Ali HajizadehThe contradictory tolls are lower than the toll reported by Human Rights Activists in Iran, a U.S.-based organization that has been closely monitoring the protest since the outbreak.
Since September, there has been a reported decline in the number of morality police officers across Iranian cities. The group was established in 2005 with the task of arresting people who violate the country's Islamic dress code.
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