Protesters have used Molotov cocktails in their clashes with security forces
TEHRAN, Oct. 9 (DPA/EP) –
The highest political leaders of the Islamic Republic have held an urgent meeting this Sunday in response to growing discontent and increasingly widespread protests throughout the country after the death of a woman who was detained in Tehran by the Moral Police for not wear the veil well.
The meeting was attended by the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi; the President of Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf; and the head of the Judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Eyei, has informed the Iranian Presidency.
After the appointment they have summoned the population to maintain national unity and stand up to the “hostile intrigues” of the enemies of the Islamic Revolution.
The protests have spread and this Saturday they have reached the IRIB public television, when the signal of two channels has been briefly interrupted by a message in favor of the protests and against the ayatollahs’ regime: “Get up and join the us”, read the message superimposed on the screen along with photographs of those who died during the protests.
The Edaalate Ali group, Justice of Ali, has claimed responsibility for this action, in which a white mask decorated with the colors of the Iranian flag could also be seen.
“The enemy wants to attack the minds of the people with psychological warfare and cause fear and frustration in society,” Raisi warned.
The president has appealed for the intervention of the security forces and the work of the media “in the face of the enemy’s psychological warfare.” He has also stressed that the defense of Human Rights “is in the essence of the Islamic Republic.”
MOLOTOV COCKTAILS
On Saturday night, new mobilizations took place and the security forces responded with tear gas and paintballs to identify the protesters for their subsequent arrest. They responded by throwing Molotov cocktails, according to videos posted on social media.
The NGO Iran Human Rights has already put the number of deaths at 185, including 19 children, due to the repression by the Iranian security forces of the protests in the country over the death in custody of the young Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini and has denounced in the last few hours the murder of the 16-year-old protester Sarina Esmailzadeh after a beating by the security forces.
A judicial spokesman for Alborz province, Hossein Fazeli, has criticized “ridiculous” claims by “anti-Iranian media” about Esmailzadeh’s death. “It cannot be that the girl died in one part of the city and she was taken to her grandmother’s house in another part of the city and she was thrown from the roof,” he said.
Thus, he maintains that Esmailzadeh accidentally fell from the roof of his grandmother’s house and that the incident has nothing to do with the protests, according to the official Iranian news agency IRNA.
