Young Iranians able tell the BBC how they saw friends and other people die as security forces crushed protests earlier this month.
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For Parisa, a 29-year-old from Tehran, the crackdown by security forces in Iran earlier this month was unlike anything she had witnessed before.
"In the most widespread previous protests, I didn't personally know a single person who had been killed," she said.
Parisa said she knew at least 13 people who had been killed since protests over worsening economic conditions erupted in the capital on 28 December and then evolved into one of the deadliest periods of anti-government unrest in the history of the Islamic Republic.
With one human rights group reporting that the number of people confirmed killed has passed 6,000, several young Iranians able speak to the BBC in recent days - despite a near-total internet shutdown - have described the personal toll.
Parisa said one 26-year-old woman she knew was killed by "a hail of bullets in the street" when the protests escalated across the country on Thursday, 8 January, and Friday, 9 January, and authorities responded with lethal force to crush them.
She herself took part in protests in the north of Tehran that Thursday, which she insisted were peaceful.
"No-one was violent and no-one clashed with the security forces. But on Friday night they still opened fire on the crowd," she said.
"The smell of gunpowder and bullets filled the neighbourhoods where clashes were taking place."
Mehdi, 24, who is also from Tehran, echoed her assessment of the scale of the protests and violence.
"I had never seen anything even close to this level of turnout and such killings and violence by the security forces," he said.
"Despite the killings on Thursday [8 January] and threats of more killings on Friday, people came out, because many of them could no longer endure it and had nothing left to lose," he added.
Mehdi described witnessing multip
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