Progress continues in Iran, police clash with students

Reports say a large number of students at Sharif University in Tehran have been stranded in campus car park.

Social media videos appear to indicate students fleeing security forces, with visible gunshots.

Antigovernmental protests erupted in Iran in September following the death of a woman banned by moral police.

Mahsa Amin, 22, fell into a coma several hours after moral police arrested him for allegedly breaking the headscarf rules.

The officers are said to have beat Mrs. Amin's head with a stick and hit her head in one of their vehicles. Police have said there is no evidence of any mistreatment and that it suffered “sudden heart failure”.

Protests began at her funeral and have spread throughout the country to become the biggest riots ever seen in the country.

A video posted in social media shows students running from security forces to Sharif University campus. From a distance, sounds like gunshots are heard.

In another, motorized security forces appear to shoot at a car carrying a passenger filming the video.

Iran International quoted reports saying security forces attacked student dormitories and fired guns at their dormitories. Other reports cite the use of tear gas to protesters.

Sunday was the first day of semester for many students attending Sharif University for the first time. Reports say the crowds had gathered outside the main gate of campus late in the evening after hearing of the clashes.

The last two nights have seen an escalation of antigovernmental protests in Tehran and in many other cities across the country, despite increasing deaths.

Iran Human Rights, an NGO based in Norway, says 133 people have been killed throughout Iran so far.

Authorities have promised they will sharply lower protesters, who say they have faced Iran's foreign enemies.