Videos from the same locations also showed demonstrators blocking roads, while a massive cloud of smoke was billowing from what was reported to be a police kiosk set ablaze.The conservative city of Mashhad was also the venue of many moments of violent crackdown, from a pregnant woman being attacked and forcefully taken away, and another beaten up by batons, to security forces smashing a private vehicle in a residential neighborhood.The rallies were held after nationwide calls despite government-imposed internet blackouts that have tremendously impeded the flow of communication.President heckledOn the same day, President Ebrahim Raisi was delivering a fiery speech at the women-only Al-Zarha University in Tehran, where he once again linked the unrest to foreign enemies.Many Iranians on social media cast serious doubt on the narrative after digging in videos earlier posted by Sarina Esmailzadeh on her personal channels on YouTube and Telegram, where they found striking differences between the interviewee and another woman who they said was indeed her mother."