A new gaffe of the President Joe Biden led to the hard Iran’s Responseadding to tensions between the two countries, which had already risen after protests erupted over the death of Mahsa Aminithe 22-year-old who lost her life a month and a half ago after being arrested by moral police because she wore the veil badly. Speech during a rally for the Democratic campaign Mike Levin in California, the American President told viewers: “Don’t worry, we will liberate Iran“. Only later did he correct himself by returning to the subject: “They will break free pretty soon”. But that was not enough to prevent the reaction Tehranwith the President Ebrahim Raisi who said, “Maybe he said it for lack of concentration. He said they wanted the liberation of Iran. Mr President, Iran was freed 43 years ago and is determined not to become your prisoner again. We will never become a cash cow,” he said in front of the former federal embassy United States on the anniversary of the occupation by Iranian students on November 4, 1979.
The US President released the statements as supporters held up cellphones with the message “Free Iran.” The Biden administration is facing increasing criticism from Iranian-American activists who have called for it White House give up efforts to get to a new nuclear deal because of the protests. Management announced last month sanctions against Iranian officials for brutal treatment of protesters.
The diplomatic row forced the US National Security Council to intervene, as it has done in the past on other controversial statements by the president, to try to defuse tensions. “Biden expressed his solidarity with the Iranian people and stressed that the US stands with the peaceful protesters,” the spokesman said. John Kirby in a virtual press conference. “It is up to the Iranian people to determine their future, nothing has changed in that regard,” the official said.
The leaders of G7However, she reiterated her solidarity with the protesters and expressed “support for the fundamental aspirations of the Iranian people for a future in which human security and their universal human rights are respected and protected”, condemned “the violent death of young Iranian man Jina Mahsa Amini “and”the brutal and disproportionate use of force against peaceful protesters and children”. Condemnation comes for “Iran’s ongoing destabilizing activities in the Middle East,” including “activities with ballistic and cruise missilesas well as unmanned aerial vehicles, and the proliferation of such advanced weapons to state and non-state actors”. The G7 also reiterated “their clear determination that Iran should never develop onenuclear weapon. The G7 will continue to work collectively and with other international partners to address Iran’s nuclear escalation and inadequate cooperation with IranAh to its protection agreement to the non-proliferation treaty. We remain deeply concerned by the relentless expansion of Iran’s nuclear program, which has no credible civilian justification.”
However, the repression continues unabated. According to reports amnesty internationalhave the security forces opened fire on demonstrators in the southeastern province of Sistan-Balochistan killed at least 10 peopleincluding some children. The protests broke out after Friday prayers in the provincial capital zahedanbut also in other areas of the province, including the city khash South. Amnesty accused the security forces of doing so “real bullets” fired from the rooftops of Khash’s institutional buildings.
But the regime’s hard blow isn’t just hitting the demonstrators. After the house arrest imposed on Mahsa Amini’s parents and brother, the news that the security forces have also arrived an arrested journalist after the release of a conversation with the father of the 22 year old. This was announced by the NGO based in Norway Hengawwhat Nazila Maroufiana reporter from the website Ruydad 24, was arrested on Sunday and transferred there Evin prisonthe notorious prison for political dissidents in Tehran, which is also home to two other journalists who wrote the first articles on the girl’s case, Niloufar Hamedi the daily newspaper Shargh e Elah Mohammadi the newspaper Ham Mihan. The journalist had published an article entitled Mahsa Amini’s father: “They are lying”, in which the girl’s family claimed that their 22-year-old daughter would be died from blows to the head was remanded in custody and not because of complications from an illness he had suffered, as the authorities claimed. Maroufian said publication of the interview was delayed due to pressure and that she and her family received the article after publication death threats.