For the first time since the wave of demonstrations in the country following the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16, the head of the Revolutionary Guards is warning the population.
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This is the first time since the protests began that the head of the Revolutionary Guards has made such a statement: General Hossein Salami warned the demonstrators on the night of Saturday 29 October. At the funeral of the fifteen dead from the attack on the Shia shrine in Shiraz, which was claimed by the Islamic State group, he urged the population to stay at home and not go out into the streets.
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“The Iranian people will not tolerate behavior that goes against the rules of the regime and the rules of Islam,” General Hossein Salami said. The head of the Revolutionary Guards also claimed that the American and Israeli intelligence services had planned the protest movement with the help of Saudi Arabia.
“We say to the youth, to this minority of betrayed youth, we repeat to them: ‘Stop the rebellion!’
General Salami
in a statement to the protesters
This speech is seen as a sign of Iran’s hardening of power in the face of the protest. In the past few days there have been renewed demonstrations in Tehran and in provincial towns with dead people, especially in Iranian Kurdistan, Mahsa Amini’s home region.
Following the death in custody on September 16 of this young woman, arrested for wearing a veil deemed illegal, anti-government demonstrations have multiplied in recent weeks in Iran, Tehran and provincial cities. There have been several deaths, particularly in Iranian Kurdistan, Mahsa Amini’s home region. Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights estimated on Tuesday October 25 that 141 people, including children, have died since the protest erupted.