Two young boys have reportedly been shot dead by Iranian security forces during anti-Government protests.
It comes as agencies report hundreds of deaths in Iran, including at least 43 children, in the most serious waves of unrest to sweep the country in decades.
Violence erupted in the Iranian city of Izeh during a three-day national strike to mark earlier protests against the Iranian government back in 2019.
State media is reporting people were killed in a "terrorist attack" on the city by gunmen on motorbikes.
But sources told BBC Persian security personnel fired the live rounds that killed Kian Pirfalak, nine, and Sepehr Maghsoudi, 14.
A source close to Sepehr's family told the outlet he was shot in the head and alleged security forces stole his body from the local morgue two hours after it was brought there.
In an interview with Radio Farda, a US-funded Persian station based in Prague, one of Kian's relatives explains how he was killed.
The relative said Kian was in his father's car when he was hit by "bullets of the Islamic Republic of Security Forces" from four sides, killing the child.
Protests against the state restrictions on women's freedom erupted in September after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman. She died under "suspicious circumstances" three days after she was arrested by Iran's 'morality police' in Tehran for violating the Islamic Republic's strict dress code.
Hundreds of people, mostly protesters, have been killed, according to activists, in one of the most serious waves of unrest to sweep the country since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iran Human Rights, a non-profit, human rights organisation with members inside and outside Iran, reported at least 342 people, including 43 children have been killed. Five protesters have also been sentenced to death, the organisation said.
Other agencies, including Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), are reporting similar numbers.
Iranian lawmakers have vowed severe punishments for protesters they describe as rioters.
The Iranian government blames Western governments and intelligence services including the United States for fomenting the unrest. These claims have not been backed up.
In an open letter, female world leaders, including Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, have called on United Nations Member States to remove Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women.
"Because of the Islamic Republic's appalling record on women's rights, and in light of the regime's ongoing, brutal crackdown on protesters, we insist that Iran's membership to the CSW be revoked. For every day that Iran remains a member of the Commission on the Status of Women, the body loses credibility," the letter states.
Ardern has said the Government is looking at what further action it can take to strongly communicate New Zealand's position.
