By: Struan Stevenson Mojtaba Khamenei inherited the most powerful office in the Islamic Republic. Yet six months into his tenure, a question once considered unthinkable is surfacing in Tehran. When the Supreme Leader speaks, who still listens? For almost five decades, the answer was obvious. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini created a system in which factional warfare could rage beneath the surface, provided everyone ultimately bowed to the Supreme Leader. Ali Khamenei preserved that arrangement for more than three decades. Presidents came and went. Clerics competed. The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) accumulated power. Yet one principle remained sacrosanct. The Supreme Leader had the final word. Today that principle is under strain. On August 28, Mojtaba Khamenei warned officials against creating false choices between war and negotiation, compromise and confrontation. He urged them to avoid publicizing weaknesses and declared that anything damaging social cohesion was forbidden. The mess...
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Iran: Protests, general strike expands over Mahsa Amini killing
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By Mahmoud Hakamian
People in different cities of Iran are continuing their protests over the killing of 22-year-oldMahsa Aminiby the regime’s so-called “morality police” for the ridiculous excuse of “improper hijab”. Protests escalated on Sunday in Tehran, Sanandaj, Mahabad, and Karaj as more people have become furious over the horrendous killing of Mahsa Amini following her arrest and transfer to a police station. After she was taken to a hospital, she died of what has been confirmed as severe brain damage due to heavy blows to her head, indicating she was tortured and viciously beaten while in custody.
Iranians in Europe, Toronto, and New York have also beenprotestingMahsa Amini’s atrocious murder.
On Monday morning, as coordinated by locals, shop owners in the cities of Sanandaj, Saqqez, Bukan, Marivan, Mahabad, and others launched a general strike to continue voicing their protests over Mahsa Amini’s brutal killing. These protests measures have spread across Kurdish cities checkered in the three provinces of Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, and Kermanshah in western Iran.
This general strike follows the regime’s severe crackdown of peaceful protests by locals in Sanandaj on Sunday night. Many people in the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province took to the streets chanting various anti-regime slogans, such as “Death to Khamenei!” referring to regime Supreme LeaderAli Khamenei. Other slogans included “Death to the dictator!” and “No fear! We’re all together!”
Locals in Sanandaj were braving all odds and standing up to the regime’s dispatching of numerous security forces. Anti-riot units opened fire on the protesters who were describing Khamenei as a “disgrace”.
Local activists have been reporting that dozens of protesters were injured as the regime’s forces opened fire. Some reports claim four severely injured protesters were transferred to Tabriz in northwest Iran to receive medical treatment.
Activists have been posting reports online indicating the regime has dispatched Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) units to quell the protests and many of the units were dispatched from other provinces as they could not understand the locals when they spoke Kurdish.
Further reports indicate Iranian regime authorities have been dispatching additional security forces and anti-riot units from Khuzestan province to Kurdistan fearing the protests will continue to expand.
On Monday, students of several universities in Tehran joined the nationwide protests over the killing of Mahsa Amini. This includes the campuses of Tehran, National, Amir Kabir, Tarbiat Modares, Arts, and Beheshti universities where students chanted slogans against the regime and clashed with security forces who sought to disperse their crowds. Reports indicate a van of the regime’s “morality police” was also torched by protester
Iranian oppositionNCRIPresident-electMaryam Rajavihailed the college students’ bravery as they protested the regime’s cruelty and vicious crimes and human rights violations against the Iranian people.
This goes alongside major protests in the city of Divandarreh in Kurdistan province, western Iran, where locals launched major clashes with the regime’s security forces. The anti-riot units sent to disperse the angry crowds were forced to retreat and flee the scenes.
This article was first published by english.mojahedin
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