More from hard-line cleric Ahmad Khatami, who is speaking during Friday prayers in Tehran.
Students Arrested
RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports that at least 37 Iranian students have been arrested in recent days amid nationwide antigovernment protests.
Friday Prayers
Hard-line cleric Ahmad Khatami is speaking after Friday prayers at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Mosque in Tehran.
He backs the government's blocking of social media in a bid to disrupt the spread of information about the protests.
Latest from RFE/RL's news desk
Pro-government demonstrators plan to take to the streets of Iran again on January 5 ahead of a United Nations Security Council emergency meeting about deadly antigovernment protests in the country during the past week.
Reports in Western media about antigovernment demonstrations in Iran have decreased since Tehran blocked key social media sites used by the protesters to spread video of the earlier unrest.
But RFE/RL has obtained credible reports on January 5 from sources in Iran about ongoing demonstrations against Iran's clerical rulers in Tehran and other cities -- the strongest challenge to the country’s Islamic leadership in almost a decade.
Iranian state media has not been covering the antigovernment demonstrations since Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed on January 3 that the demonstrations were over.
But state media has reported that the IRGC is continuing to deploy security forces in different parts of the country.
At least 22 people have been killed in clashes between the antigovernment demonstrators and security forces and more than 1,000 protesters reportedly have been arrested.
State media also has been reporting on pro-government rallies organized by authorities in recent days.
Iranian state media says about 40 pro-government rallies were expected in Tehran Province after Friday prayers on January 5.
The UN Security Council was due to meet later on January 5 at the behest of the United States and over strong objections raised by Russia.
Antigovernment Protest In Mashhad
Footage has emerged of a protest late January 4 in the city of Mashhad, where the protests first began on December 28.
Antigovernment Protest In Iran's Kurdistan
Footage has emerged of a protest on late January 4 in the city of Sanandaj in Iran's Kurdistan Province.
Western news agencies have reported an apparent lull in demonstrations.
But journalists and activists say protests have continued in cities and towns across Iran, with authorities' tight control over social media delaying the sharing of footage from the antigovernment rallies.
Antigovernment protests In Khuzestan
Social media footage purports to show a protest in the town of Dezful in Khuzestan Province, in southwest Iran, late January 4.
Overnight Antigovernment Protest In Tehran
Footage obtained by RFE/RL's Radio Farda showed a protest in Tehran late January 4. Protesters can be heard chanting "Death to [Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei."
The protest purportedly took place on Azadi street in Tehran.