From Australia to Europe via the United States, About eighty cities have joined forces against the suppression of protests and rallies in support of Mahsa Amini, but also to commemorate the regime’s last two victims, who hanged two other 20-year-olds on charges of murdering a paramilitary at dawn on Saturday. gatherings also in Iran to commemorate, among other things, the anniversary of the downing of Ukraine Airlines flight PS752 with 176 people on board by the Revolutionary Guards exactly three years ago.
They were in Rome The 300,000 adhesions from the campaign launched by La Stampa were delivered to the Iranian embassy to save the life of Fahimeh Karimi, an Iranian volleyball coach and mother of three young children who was sentenced to death for kicking a Basij paramilitary. “Iran has crossed the red line, the point of no return, beginning with the execution of the death sentences. Italy is against the death penalty,” reiterated the Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on SkyTg24 one speaks of sentences “disproportionate to the crimes committed: killing is unacceptable, especially when it is done in the name of God”. The deputy prime minister then recalled that he had summoned the Iranian ambassador and asked him to send a message to Tehran to block the death sentences. “It seems to me that the response received informally goes in the opposite direction. Let’s hope Tehran changes its position,” Tajani concluded.
The opposition is also making itself heard: “In Iran, there is unprecedented brutality in the suppression of fundamental rights, and to be honest I’m surprised that young Italians aren’t mobilizing for it,” complained the campaign leader. Karl Calendaduring Mara Carfagna, President of Azione, hoped Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni would ask for an EU initiative tomorrow when he met Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. For the Iranian cause, alongside the people and women, The radicals also took sides who joined the march organized by the Iranian community in Rome and Turin in the afternoon.
Today’s protests document the videos released by activists from the group 1500Tasvir showing students from different universities in Tehran and other cities They chant anti-government slogans. “We swear on the blood of our friends that we will resist to the end,” the protesters said, demanding the release of their comrades while shouting at the powerful Revolutionary Guards, “You are ISIS in Iran.” The same sources reported that the protesters were “greeted” at most universities by plainclothes university guards, who attacked them. Actions that have not ended repression, with four Iranians being sentenced to between one and 10 years in prison for inciting a strike during the protests.
This has created confusion during these hours on social media Suicide of journalist Mohsen Jafarirad, 36, which took place after his release from prison. A colleague of his denounced him, as BBC Persian writes. It would not be the first suicide since being released from Iranian prisons and someone has linked it to prisoners being given large doses of drugs and psychedelic substances which, in addition to side effects, also induce suicidal thoughts when discontinued. But fear doesn’t stop the protest: today Iranian taekwondo athlete Nahid KianiBronze medal winner at the 2016 Asian Championships and 2018 Asian Games, published a picture on social media showing her without a headscarf, the Islamic veil. To add fuel to the fire, the tough stance of Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami, who today again threatened the West to exact revenge for the 2020 assassination of former General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, is covert, the head of the top team Pasdaran operational elite hit by drone fire.
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A journalist “committed suicide” after being released from prison in Iran. This was reported by the Persian BBC based on some reports from the country. (HAND)
MET IN TEHRAN OUTSIDE FRENCH EMBASSY TO PROTEST AGAINST CHARLIE HEBDO CARTOONS
The official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Irna, reported that a rally was held in front of the French embassy in Tehran today protest against the publication of Ali Khamenei’s cartoons in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. According to the agency, those present at the rally shouted some slogans: “Death to Israel and death to England” and “Shame on France”. Charlie Hebdo magazine published a special issue devoted to Iran last week, with 35 cartoons mocking Khamenei.