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2022-09-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran president defiant as eight reported dead in protests over woman's death
[AlAhram] Iran's president on Wednesday accused the West of hypocrisy in its criticism of Tehran as eight people were reported dead in growing protests over the death of a young woman arrested by morality police.

President Ebrahim Raisi struck a defiant tone on a visit to the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
, with demonstrators also trailing him on the streets of New York and dissidents filing a human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
lawsuit against the hardline holy man.

Public anger has flared in the Islamic republic since authorities on Friday announced the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been held for allegedly wearing a hijab headscarf in an "improper" way.

Activists said the woman, whose Kurdish first name is Jhina, had suffered a fatal blow to the head, a claim denied by officials, who have announced an investigation.

Some women demonstrators have defiantly taken off their hijabs and burned them in bonfires or symbolically cut their hair before cheering crowds, video footage spread on social media has shown.

"No to the headscarf, no to the turban, yes to freedom and equality!" protesters in Tehran were heard chanting in a rally that has been echoed by solidarity protests abroad.

Iranian state media reported Wednesday that, in a fifth night of street rallies that had spread to 15 cities, police used tear gas and made arrests to disperse crowds of up to 1,000 people.

London-based rights group Article 19 said it was "deeply concerned by reports of the unlawful use of force by Iranian police and security forces," including the use of live ammunition.

Demonstrators hurled stones at security forces, set fire to police vehicles and garbage bins and hollered poorly rhymed slogans against the government, the official IRNA news agency said, adding that rallies were held in cities including Mashhad, Tabriz, Isfahan and Shiraz.

"Death to the dictator" and "Woman, life, freedom," protesters could be heard shouting in video footage that spread beyond Iran, despite online restrictions reported by internet access monitor Netblocks.

At the United Nations, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told AFP that "the Iranian leadership should notice that the people are unhappy with the direction that they have taken."

"They could abandon their nuclear weapons aspirations. They could stop the repression of voices within their own country. They could stop their destabilizing activities," he said.

"A different path is possible. That is the path that we want Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
to take and that is the path that will see them with a stronger economy, a more happy society and a more active part in the international community."

Raisi, addressing the UN General Assembly, pointed to the deaths of Indigenous women in Canada as well as Israeli actions in the Paleostinian territories and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group's "savagery" against women from religious minority groups.

"So long as we have this double standard, where attention is solely focused on one side and not all equally, we will not have true justice and fairness," Raisi said.

He also pushed back on Western terms to revive a 2015 nuclear accord, insisting that Iran "is not seeking to build or obtain nuclear weapons and such weapons have no place in our doctrine."

But attention has quickly shifted to the protests, which are among the most serious in Iran since November 2019 unrest over fuel price rises.

French President Emmanuel Macron said he asked Raisi in a meeting Tuesday to show "respect for women's rights."

The wave of protests over Amini's death "is a very significant shock, it is a societal crisis," said Iran expert David Rigoulet-Roze of the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs.

"It is difficult to know the outcome but there is a disconnect between the authorities with their DNA of the Islamic revolution of 1979 and an increasingly secularized society," he said.

"It is a whole social project that is being called into question. There is a hesitation among the authorities on the way forward with regard to this movement."

Protests first erupted Friday in Amini's home province of Kurdistan, where governor Ismail Zarei Koosha said Tuesday three people had been killed in "a plot by the enemy."

Kurdistan police commander Ali Azadi on Wednesday announced the death of another person, according to Tasnim news agency.

Two more protesters "were killed during the riots" in Kermanshah province, the region's prosecutor Shahram Karami was quoted as saying by Fars news agency, blaming "counter-revolutionary agents."

Additionally, Norway-based Kurdish rights group Hengaw said two protesters, aged 16 and 23, had been killed overnight in West Azerbaijan province.

An additional 450 people had been maimed and 500 arrested, the group said, figures that could not be independently verified.

Video spread online showing security forces opening fire on protesters in the southern city of Shiraz.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
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#1 Eight?
Why is this news?
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-09-22 00:49||   2022-09-22 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Because they know the regime is using deadly force, yet they still protest. It's a sign of illegitimacy for the Ayatollah's Islam
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-22 06:43||   2022-09-22 06:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Iranians see widespread internet blackout amid mass protests
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-22 07:02||   2022-09-22 07:02|| Front Page Top

#4 You're not wrong Frank G. But life in the middle east is cheap. Paleo's frequently sacrifice their life attacking Israeli soldiers and die for a lifetime stipend for their family. They revenge kill each other daily, murder their daughters for a perceived disgrace. They are so pathetic it's easier to die than live. Eight or 100 dead, not news.
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-09-22 08:12||   2022-09-22 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Protesters set fires in the street in Tehran during fifth night of unrest following death of woman who was attacked by 'morality police' for not wearing the veil - as women in Turkey protest outside embassy holding locks of their hair
Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-22 09:25||   2022-09-22 09:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Why is this news?

Remember the Arab Spring?
This may be the trigger for the Arab Fall.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-22 09:26||   2022-09-22 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 
It becomes news when the Ayatollah
is dragged out, disrobed
and raped to death with knives.
And delightfully corrupt loons
are given to be king, men
p-p-pistol whipped by their wives.

Hasten the day, inshallah an' all.
Oh! The nuclear program will need dismantling, it's bad. Enjoy democracy, Joos 100: Moslems zilch.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-22 10:39||   2022-09-22 10:39|| Front Page Top

#8 I mean one can hope...
Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-22 10:40||   2022-09-22 10:40|| Front Page Top

#9 -checks watch-

Must be about time for Obama to make a statement condemning the protests and affirming the absolute legitimacy and election integrity of the regime.

-puts on dinner jacket-
I'll have the roast duck, and a reaper drone with 3 servings of elderberry sauce to land in Iran.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-22 10:56||   2022-09-22 10:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Iran protests: 9 dead in escalating unrest as demonstrators set fire to police stations, stab regime enforcer
Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-22 11:21||   2022-09-22 11:21|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL the moment Iran gives up their nuclear weapons program is the moment they get invaded. Libya gave its up and got a color revolution for its trouble. North Korea hasn't been invaded because it does have nukes.
Posted by Sheba Smith8503 2022-09-22 12:54||   2022-09-22 12:54|| Front Page Top

#12 I hope someday a massive preference cascade like in Romania in 1989 will happen in Iran.
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-09-22 17:59||   2022-09-22 17:59|| Front Page Top

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