President Raisi warns protesters that “chaos is not acceptable” and military accuses “enemies” of country of encouraging concentrations
The Iranian regime is taking a step forward to put down protests in which thousands of people are calling for an end to the mandatory use of the hijab and expressing 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 country’s main cities after Friday prayers in support of the use of the veil for women and against the protests “encouraged by foreigners”.
They were marches covered in detail by the official media to send the images to the whole world. The exact opposite of what happens every day with the opposition protests, of which only videos from mobile phones appear and uploaded to social networks.
It took Ebrahim Raisi a week to respond to the most serious mobilizations Iran has undergone in the past three years, leaving dozens dead and hundreds injured and arrested. The president sent a direct message to protesters telling them that “chaos is unacceptable” in the Islamic republic.
He lamented the “double standards” imposed on his country, as “every day, in different countries, including the United States, we see how men and women die in police stations, but there is hardly any reaction in the media with this kind of violence. ».
These words were accompanied by a statement by the military that “is ready to face the enemies” and that the riots are denounced as “desperate actions of the enemy’s diabolical strategy to weaken the Islamic regime”, meaning they the escalation of tension between Israel and the United States. One of the common strategies of the ayatollah regime is to blame foreign interference, which exists and is intense, for all ills, avoiding any form of self-criticism.
For a week, protests have spread from Kurdistan in Iran 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. Police say he suffered a heart attack, but the family says the body showed signs of abuse.
Three years ago, Iranians took to the streets en masse to protest rising prices, and the regime reacted harshly. Now they do it to demand the end of one of the rules that have been in effect since the founding of the Islamic republic, such as the use of the hijab, and again they get the same response.
In 2019, the anger was suppressed by the security forces and some protesters took on fatigue and fear without a leadership capable of confronting the ayatollah system.
Source: La Verdad
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