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| Hezbollah, Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi helping Iran quash protests |
| 2022-10-16 |
| [JPost] Arabic-speaking men have been filmed violently beating protesters in Iran. Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraq’s Has’d al-Shaabi have been seen helping Iran’s Basiji forces crackdown on protesters across the country. According to sources, plain-clothes men with Lebanese-accented Arabic were seen trying to suppress riots in various cities in Iran, including in the capital of Tehran. They are in addition to the hundreds of troops belonging to the police, Basiji, and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps who have been central in trying to quash the protests. Iran has been engulfed in widespread protests against the regime since mid-September after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was killed in police custody after she was detained by the country’s morality police for not properly wearing a hijab. "The Iranian state is a target and so any incident is exploited... to incite against this state." HEZBOLLAH ON THE IRAN PROTESTS In early October, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah referred to Amini’s death as a "vague incident" and that the protests rocking the country are not reflective of the true will of Iranians. "The Iranian state is a target and so any incident is exploited... to incite against this state," he said. "This vague incident was exploited and people took to the streets." |
| Posted by:Frank G |