Iran has cracked down on the biggest protests since 2019, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Mahsa Amini (Photo: dia images/Collaborator/Getty)
Iran faced fresh international criticism on Monday over the death of a woman in police custody, a case that sparked protests across the country after Tehran accused the United States of using the unrest to try to destabilize the country.
Iran has cracked down on the biggest protests since 2019, sparked by the September 16 death of Kurdish Mahsa Amini, 22, after her arrest by the moral police, which enforces the Islamic Republic’s strict restrictions on women’s clothing . The case drew widespread condemnation.
But the measures did not prevent the Iranians ask for the fall of chief Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the rest of the clerical establishment.
Canada will impose sanctions on those responsible for Amini’s death, including Iran’s moral police unit and its leadership, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday.
“We have seen Iran flouting human rights repeatedly, now we see it with the murder of Mahsa Amini and the crackdown on protests,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa.
Activist 1500tasvir’s Twitter account posted videos showing street protests Monday night in different parts of Tehran, and footage in which residents could be heard chanting “Death to Dictator” and “Death to Khamenei” from their homes. . Reuters was unable to verify the veracity of the videos.
Women played a prominent role in the protests, waving and burning their veils.
Human rights group Hengaw posted a video on Twitter that shows protesters gathering in Kurdistan’s provincial capital, Sanandaj, with women cheering and removing their headscarves in protest against the forced wearing of hijabs.
Iran said the United States supported the protesters and sought to destabilize the Islamic Republic.
“Washington is still trying to weaken Iran’s stability and security, even though it hasn’t succeeded,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani told Nour News, which is affiliated with a news outlet. high-level security body, in a statement.
On his Instagram page, Kanaani accused the leaders of the United States and some European countries of abusing a tragic incident to support “protesters” and ignoring “the presence of millions of people in the streets and places of the country in support of the system. “.
(Reporting from Dubai Newsroom)
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