The US is “alarmed and dismayed” by the “violence and mass arrests” during the protests in Iran

Oct. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Biden Administration has indicated this Monday through the White House spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, that it is “alarmed and dismayed” by the reports coming from Iran, where security forces have repressed protests over the death of Mahsa Amini with “mass violence and arrests”.

“This weekend’s strict measures (crackdown) are precisely the kind of behavior that drives Iran’s talented youth to leave the country by the thousands, seeking dignity and opportunity elsewhere,” he said, according to picked up the newspaper ‘The Washington Post’.

Thus, Jean-Pierre has pointed out that the demonstrators in Iran “are duly committed to the death of Amini”, as well as the denunciations against the treatment that the Iranian Government gives to women and girls, or against the “violent repression of peaceful protests.

These statements come after the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has accused the United States and Israel of being behind the “riots” in the context of the protests over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, detained by allegedly wearing the veil incorrectly, which has resulted in more than 90 deaths.

“I explicitly say that these riots and security incidents were engineered by the United States and the fake and usurping Zionist regime — referring to Israel — as well as their mercenaries and some treacherous Iranians based abroad who helped them,” he said. manifested during a graduation ceremony for Iranian Army cadets.

Thus, he has indicated that the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman arrested on September 13 in Tehran for allegedly wearing the ‘hijab’ wrongly, was an event “that saddened everyone”, although he has underlined that “the reaction to the incident without an investigation, taking to the streets, removing the veil, burning mosques or other people’s vehicles, was not normal.”

In this sense, Khamenei has stated that these incidents were “planned” and has argued that, had it not been for Amini’s death, the United States and Israel would have “created another excuse to generate insecurity and chaos” in the country, as as the Iranian news agency Mehr has collected.