The November 2019 protests, Aban 1398 or Bloody Aban in Persian, began after a sudden fuel-price rise on 15 November 2019 (24 Aban 1398). This archive does not keep a separate October 2019 crackdown. The price announcement was the spark. Within a day the street was a nationwide confrontation with the Islamic Republic. A near-total internet shutdown hid the killing. Mahshahr's canebrake massacre is filed here because it happened in that same week.¹

What happened

HRANA's second Farsi compilation lists unrest in more than one hundred cities, from Tehran and Karaj to Mahshahr, Zahedan, Kermanshah, Shiraz, and Mashhad. People blocked roads, refused petrol stations, and chanted against Khamenei. The main street phase ran about five days, 15 to 19 November. Arrests and family harassment continued long after.¹

On 16 November, around 2 p.m., mobile operators began to drop. By evening the country was almost dark to the outside. Most of the named dead fall in the forty-eight hours after that cut.

Mahshahr

In Mahshahr and Chamran (Jarrahi), people blocked the road toward the petrochemical complex. Security forces, including IRGC units with heavy weapons, drove those who fled into the reeds and fired. HRANA's file treats Mahshahr, Chamran, and Taleghani as among the bloodiest points of the week. Later Iranian and exile tallies for the reeds run from dozens to more than a hundred. State television called the dead "armed villains." That is a regime line, not a description of the crowd.¹

How many people were killed

HRANA's named work is a minimum. It is not the whole country.

In December 2019 Reuters reported that three unnamed Interior Ministry officials put the dead at about 1,500 in less than two weeks, in some 190 cities, including teenagers and about 400 women. The same officials said Khamenei had told security chiefs to do whatever it took to end the unrest. The Islamic Republic rejected the figure. The raw ministry lists were never published.²

A named open-source list and an unofficial official estimate answer different questions. Do not average them. Do not replace 1,500 with a later Western "verified" floor and call that the toll.

This archive

"Aban 1398," "Aban 98," "Bloody Aban," "November 2019 gasoline protests," and Mahshahr marsh or canebrake labels are gathered here. "Aban 1401" is 2022 and belongs with Woman Life Freedom.