President Raisi warns the protesters that “chaos is not acceptable” and the Army accuses “enemies” of the country of encouraging the concentrations
The Iranian regime takes a step forward to quell the protests in which thousands of people call for the end of the compulsory use of the hijab (headscarf) and show their anger at the death of a young Kurdish woman at the hands of the Moral Police. The authorities mobilized their followers to march through the main cities of the country after Friday prayers in support of the use of the veil for women and against the protests “encouraged by foreigners”.
They were marches that were covered in detail by the official media to send the images to the whole world. Quite the opposite of what happens with the opposition protests every day, of which only mobile phone videos uploaded to social networks come out.
Ebrahim Raisi has needed a week to respond to the most serious mobilizations that Iran has suffered in the last three years and that have left dozens of dead and hundreds of wounded and arrested. The president sent a direct message to the protesters to tell them that “chaos is unacceptable” in the Islamic republic.
He lamented the “double standards” applied to his country, since “every day, in different countries, including the United States, we see how men and women die in police stations, but there are hardly any reactions in the media with this type of violence. ».
These words were accompanied by a statement from the Army that is “willing to confront the enemies” and that dismisses the riots as “desperate actions of the enemy’s diabolical strategy to weaken the Islamic regime”, which means that they blame the escalation of tension between Israel and the United States. One of the usual strategies of the ayatollahs’ regime is to blame foreign interference, which exists and is intense, for all ills, avoiding any exercise of self-criticism.
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For a week now, the protests have spread from Iran’s Kurdistan to fifty cities in the country. Mahsa Amimi was 22 years old and Kurdish, she traveled to Tehran to visit relatives and lost her life at the hands of the Moral Police, who arrested her for not wearing the veil correctly. The Police assure that she suffered a heart attack, but the family denounces that the body presented marks of ill-treatment.
Three years ago, Iranians took to the streets en masse to protest rising prices, and the regime responded harshly. Now they do it to request the end of one of the regulations in force since the creation of the Islamic republic, such as the use of the hijab, and they meet again with the same reaction.
In 2019, the anger was quelled by the security forces and fatigue and fear took over some protesters without a leadership capable of confronting the ayatollah system.
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