Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi calls the Iranian government an “abnormal regime”

Lawyer says Amini’s death caused ‘people’s anger to explode’

BAKU, March 9. (From the special envoy of Europa Press, Borja Aranda) –

The Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi has branded the Government of Iran this Thursday as an “abnormal regime” and has stressed that the death in custody in September of the young Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini, arrested for allegedly wearing the veil incorrectly, caused that ” the anger of the people would explode.”

Ebadi, who has sent a video to participate in the opening day of the X Global Forum in Baku, organized by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, recalled that “the motto of the mobilizations is ‘Woman, life and freedom'” and He has stressed that among the objectives of the protesters is “supporting a secular regime” in Iran.

Thus, he has defended the metaphor that “the revolution is like a train” and has argued that “speed is sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes it is silent or noisy, but it keeps going”, while emphasizing that it will remain active “until the fall of the regime.”

Ebadi has stressed that in the future the country will be “a secular democracy” and has argued that this regime change “will help peace in the region”, before charging against Tehran for its “interventions in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon “. In this way, he has stated that the Government of Iran “disturbs peace and stability in these countries.”

Along these lines, he has condemned the assault carried out on January 27 against the Azeri Embassy in Tehran, an event that he has described as “a terrorist attack” and which resulted in the death of the legation’s head of security. Baku subsequently announced the suspension of activities at the facility, after which he criticized Iranian forces for not taking “serious measures” to prevent the attack.

In fact, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, condemned the “terrorist attack” and asked the Iranian authorities that the event be investigated “quickly” and that those responsible be “punished.” Tehran has said that preliminary investigations point to “personal reasons” for the attacker, who was detained.

By contrast, Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 – when she became the first Iranian and Muslim woman to win it – has said that the event “was designed and carried out by a regime that supports terrorists “. “It not only oppresses and kills its citizens, it applies the same methods with other countries,” said the lawyer and activist, who has also reported that “these methods are not approved by the population.”

Ebadi, 75, is a prominent critic of the Iranian government since the 1979 Revolution and in recent months has expressed her support for the demonstrations unleashed after Amini’s death, which have been violently repressed by the security forces. Iranians.

The lawyer, who has focused her work on the defense of Human Rights in Iran and who has lived in exile in London since 2009, has maintained during this period that the protests represent one of the main challenges to the authorities since the Islamic Revolution, in the midst of the growing discomfort due to the economic crisis and the restrictions of rights and freedoms, especially of women.

The Government of Iran has denied that the security forces were responsible for the death of Amini and affirmed days after his death that the autopsy ruled out an assault, pointing to a heart attack when he appeared for a hearing. The young woman died days later in a hospital.

However, they have recognized some excesses during the repression of the mobilizations, which have resulted in around 500 deaths, according to balances provided by various non-governmental organizations. Tehran has confirmed close to 300 deaths, although it is feared that the number is higher.