The Iranian military on January 10 announced that it would protect strategic infrastructure and public assets, and called on the Iranian people to prevent "enemy plots".
The military, operating independently of the IRGC but also commanded by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared it would "protect and preserve national interests, strategic infrastructure and public assets of the country".
In an official statement, the Iranian military accused Israel and "hostile terrorist groups" of trying to "destroy public security of the country".
Since the night of January 9, instability has continued throughout the night in Iran. A public building has been burned down in Karaj, west of Tehran.
Iranian state television broadcasts funeral scenes of security forces members killed in protests in the cities of Shiraz, Qom and Hamedan.
Saturday is the start of the working week in Iran, but many schools and universities are said to have organized online classes.
Protests have spread across Iran in the past 2 weeks, starting from a response to rising inflation, but quickly shifting to politics as protesters call on religious rulers to resign.
Tasnim news agency of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said on January 10 that 100 people had been arrested in a district of Tehran province.
The report said that the arrested people were accused of "disturbing public order" and "using guns and cold weapons against civilians and security forces, law enforcement" in Baharestan district.
Cold weapons are weapons that directly impact opponents to cause injury.
According to Human Rights Activists News Agency based in the US, at least 65 people were killed and more than 2,300 people were arrested in protests in Iran.
Most deaths occur outside Tehran, in the provinces of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Ilam, Kermanshah and Fars. Fars province has the highest death toll with a total of 38 people.
Reza Pahlavi, who lives in the US, son of Iran's last Shah overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, has fueled protests in Iran.
Most recently, he called on "workers and employees in key economic sectors, especially transportation, oil and gas and energy" in Iran to start a nationwide strike.
