Removing turbans from clerics, the latest way to protest in Iran

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The country has been experiencing ongoing protests since the death on September 16 of young Mahsa Amini after he was arrested by the moral police for improperly wearing the Islamic veil.

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Iranian youth has improvised Different ways to protest in Iranfrom women walking without a veil shouting from windows to protest songs, and a new method has been imposed in recent days: remove the turban from the clergy.

The modus operandi is already viral on social networks: a young man or girl approaches a preacher from behind and with his hand he touches the turban with which he covers his head until it falls to the ground, many times to the laughter of those present.

And of course it will be videoed to share later Twitter, Instagram or Telegrambattlefields as important as the streets of the country.

If there are any doubts about the message, a montage of these videos plays the song of the British group Queen I want to break free.

Iran lives protests since death 16 September of the young people Mahsa Amini after being arrested three days earlier by the moral police for wearing the Islamic veil incorrectly, mobilizations calling for the end of the Islamic Republic.

The protests are mainly led by young people and women who shout: “Woman, life, freedom!” That they launch anti-government slogans and burn veilsone of the symbols of the Islamic Republic and something unimaginable until recently.

It was also inconceivable that young people would remove the turbans from the religious, a form of protest demonstrating the rejection of the clerics of the Islamic Republic founded in 1979 by Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini.

However, the message does not seem to reach the highest Iranian circles, what keep pointing to the United States as the culprit of the protests and they seem to be closed off to the possibility that the population’s discontent is real.

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Source: EITB

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