Iran has stepped up pressure on celebrities and journalists over the wave of women-led protests sparked by outrage over the death of Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the Islamic republic's morality police.
Filmmakers, athletes, musicians and actors backed the demonstrations, and many saw it as a signal when the national football team remained in their black tracksuits before the match in Vienna against Senegal.
The Tehran provincial governor Mohsen Mansouri said that they would take action against celebrities who have sparked the flames of the riots.
Iran's judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei also claimed that those who became famous thanks to support from the system have joined the enemy when times are difficult. Warnings came after almost two weeks of protests across Iran and a deadly crackdown by security forces. Iran Human Rights, a Norway-based group, said on Thursday that at least 83 people, including children, had been killed during the repression.
Amini, a 22 year-old Kurdish woman, died on September 16, three days after her arrest for allegedly breaching Iran's strict rules for women on hijab headscarves and modest clothing.
In Iran's biggest demonstration in almost three years, protesters have chanted ever since, in which women have defiantly burned their headscarves and cut their hair.
President Ebrahim Raisi warned that despite the grief and sorrow over Amini's death, public security is the red line of the Islamic Republic of Iran and no one is allowed to break the law and cause chaos in Iran. On Thursday, France has slammed interference in its internal affairs, having previously complained to Britain and Norway.
There are protests with Iranian women and rallies are planned in 70 cities on Saturday.
In Afghanistan's capital Kabul, a protest erupted, where women rallied outside Iran's embassy with banners that read: Iran has risen, now it is our turn! From Kabul to Iran, say no to dictatorship! The reporter Elahe Mohammadi was arrested on Thursday by Iran, who had covered Amini's funeral, her lawyer said, becoming the latest of a growing number of journalists arrested.
The police arrested journalist Niloufar Hamedi, a reformist Shargh daily, who went to the hospital where Amini lay in a coma and helped expose the case to the world.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday that three other journalists Farshid Ghorbanpour, Aria Jaffari and Mobin Balouch had been arrested, bringing the total behind bars to 28.
London-based Amnesty International criticised Iran's widespread patterns of unlawful use of force and ruthless violence by security forces It said this included the use of live ammunition and metal pellets, heavy beatings and sexual violence against women, all under the cover of deliberate ongoing internet and mobile disruptions Dozens of people, including children, have been killed and hundreds injured, said the group s secretary general Agn s Callamard.
Iran blamed outside forces for the protests, and launched cross-border missile and drone strikes that killed 13 people in Iraq's Kurdistan region, accusing armed groups there of fuelling the unrest.
On Thursday, German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said she was doing everything she could to push for EU sanctions against those beating women to death and shooting demonstrators in the name of religion.