Iran Newspaper, the official media outlet of the government, said there were a "small number of rioters" and claimed protesters were "making up" deaths to encourage more people to join them.However, footage obtained by IranWire shows security forces shooting dead a young driver who was honking his support for protestors in the city by firing directly at his head."Nor witness them burning public property, killing people on the streets and in the markets, cutting a police officer’s throat, burning the Quran, removing the hijab from women, or dozens of other crimes."“Nearly two hours after the President attended the ceremony to start the new academic year at Al-Zahra University, some students gathered outside the campus and chanted protest slogans, and 150 people in Amir Kabir University, 100 people from the Technical Faculty of Tehran University, 30 people from Sharif University, 30 people from Allameh University and 35 people from Azad University of Medical Sciences gathered and chanted slogans."It is not clear how these numbers were arrived at, but IranWire reported in its daylong coverage on Saturday that violent protests were sweeping the country with at least hundreds of people taking to the streets in around two dozen cities across Iran."