Protesters took to the streets of Iranian cities this Saturday to condemn the death of 22-year-old teenager Masha Amini. in the custody of the morality police in the capital Tehran. Amini was arrested”wearing the veil wrong“and allegedly imposes strict dress codes that women in the Islamic Republic must follow.
After that one month protests Incessantly, and with the Iranian authorities’ various statements confirming that the young woman died of an illness, not a “beating”, the anger of her death – and the inadequate explanation – triggered the biggest wave of demonstrations and violence in Iran Since the 2019 protests against rising gasoline prices.
Concentrations drive them young women burning their veils and they continue to spread despite the disruptions of the most popular social networks and the risk of exposing themselves and facing the police.
“The mullahs must goOn Saturday, a group of uncovered female students at the Shariati Technical and Vocational School in Tehran in Al Hamedan (west of the capital), protesters fired bullets at security forces, according to footage confirmed by AFP; Several marches were held in Ardabil, traders went on strike in Amini’s original city of Saqez. Various youth groups also demonstrated at universities in Tehran, Isfahan (in the south) and Kermanshah (in the northwest), according to various images shared online.
The slogan of the demonstrators, appeal “the beginning of the end!Activists are calling on citizens to demonstrate in places where security forces are not present, chanting slogans such as “death to the dictator”, referring to leader Ali Khamenei.
international solidarity
Protests in Iran are entering their fifth consecutive week. had international repercussions and many countries have been in solidarity with the Iranian people. To counter the repression, the United States and the European Union set sanctions against officials involved in the repression, who have already left the country. At least 108 dead, including 23 children According to the human rights organization Amnesty International, he is between the ages of 11 and 17.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has repeatedly accused the United States of wanting to destabilize his country. And before the European Union imposed sanctions on Tehran on Monday, Iran’s head of diplomacy, Hossein Amir-Abdolahian, called on the bloc to give the demonstrations a “realistic look”.
Iran is apillar of lasting stability and security in the region“, the minister recalled during a phone call with the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, on Friday.