Protests in Tehran spread to another cities of Iran
2023.02.17 12:57
Protests in Tehran spread to another cities of Iran
By Tiffany Smith
Budrigannews.com – Online video posts purportedly showed on Friday that protesters calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic were again rocking Iran overnight on Thursday after appearing to have diminished in recent weeks.
The marches that began on Thursday evening and continued into the night in numerous cities, including Tehran, marked 40 days since two protesters were killed last month.
On January 8, Mohammad Hosseini and Mehdi Karami were hanged. In December, two more people were executed.
In September of last year, the Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, 22, was killed in custody for flouting the hijab policy, which requires women to completely cover their bodies and hair.
In the cities of Karaj, Isfahan, Qazvin, Rasht, Arak, Mashhad, Sanandaj, Qorveh, and Izeh in the Khuzestan province, demonstrations were captured on video on Friday.
Three of the protest videos from Zahedan and one from Tehran were confirmed by Reuters.
Protesters were heard yelling, ” ” in a purported online video shot in the holy Shi’ite city of Mashhad in the northeast. We will avenge your blood, my martyred brother.”
Other videos showed a lot of demonstrations on Friday in Zahedan, the capital of the Sistan-Baluchistan province in the southeast of Iran, where the Baluchi minority lives.
In the meantime, the judiciary reported that a police commander accused of raping a girl had been fired and imprisoned by a court. According to Amnesty International, the incident fueled resentment ahead of the Sept. 30 protests, which saw a crackdown in Zahedan that resulted in the deaths of at least 66 people.
Since the revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic has faced one of its greatest challenges with the prolonged wave of unrest. Women have waved, burned, or cut their hair in open defiance of the rules regarding the hijab.
Acts of civil disobedience have continued despite the fact that the unrest appeared to have subsided in recent weeks, probably as a result of the executions or the crackdown.
In Tehran and other cities, nightly chants against the government reverberate. On major highways, young people burn pro-government billboards or signs or spray-paint nighttime graffiti denouncing the republic. Despite official warnings, naked women appear in malls, restaurants, shops, and the streets.
Among the dozens of recently released prisoners, many of the women have revealed themselves in front of cameras.
The Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab policy has not been curtailed by authorities.
Due to noncompliance with hijab regulations, several cafes, restaurants, and businesses in Iran have been reported to have closed in recent weeks.
In the stores and businesses of Tehran, officials from Iran have urged trade unions to enforce hijab regulations more strictly.
Last month, Tehran University warned that “improperly” veiled female students would be denied entry, and Urmia University, in the northwest, reported that about 50 students were denied entry for violating hijab regulations.
Rights activists claim that since September, over 500 protesters, including 71 minors, have been killed. Twenty thousand people have been held. The judiciary says at least four people have been hanged.
Karami, a karate champion who was 22 years old, and Hosseini were found guilty of killing a Basij paramilitary force militia member.
According to Amnesty International, the court that found Karami guilty used forced confessions. According to Hosseini’s attorney, the client had been tortured.
On December 8 and 12, two more were executed.
According to posts on social media, five women activists who were freed on Thursday said they owed their freedom to the support of “the freedom-loving people and youths of Iran.”
They released a statement that read, “The day of freedom is near.”
