A number of Iranian security personnel were killed in Israeli strikes on four checkpoints across Tehran, the hardline Fars News Agency reported on 11 March. The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana) said it had confirmed the killing of at least 7,000 civilians during the protests. Iranian police have arrested a person in southern Fars Province over allegedly setting up a network to sell "unfiltered" internet via Starlink, according to a report by semi-official Mehr News Agency on 12 March. During an interview with the BBC's US partner CBS on 15 March, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was asked why he able to speak via Zoom while his fellow countrymen are not allowed to access the internet. BBC Persian is the Persian language service of BBC News, used by 24 million people around the world - the majority in Iran - despite being blocked and routinely jammed by Iranian authorities. But on 12 March during his first press conference since the war, he said that he could not "say with certainty that the Iranian people will bring down the regime".