(by Filippo Cicciù) (ANSA) — ISTANBUL, 07 DEC — Tear gas at protesters marching in central Tehran and other cities, gunfire at the homes of those shouting slogans from windows, severe restrictions on internet use and constantly suppressed demonstrations even at universities. After almost three months, the protest that has exploded in Iran seems unstoppable, and support for the place is also coming from the institutions, as well as from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s sister, after yesterday former President Mohammad Khatami asked for the motions to be dismissed by the to be heard by demonstrators.
“Our services will continue to be offered to all citizens,” clarified the director of the Central Bank of Iran, Ali Saleh-Abadi, defining as “false” the announcement by an MP who had proposed blocking bank accounts for women violating the Law on the use of the veil. Badri Hosseini Khamenei, sister of leader Ali, who has been in power since 1989, instead said that had she not been older she would have taken to the streets with the protesters and declared her opposition to the “despotic caliphate” of her brother, who a “criminal system”. The open letter was published today after her daughter Farideh was arrested for supporting the demonstrations in recent weeks. “I hope for the victory of the people and the overthrow of this tyranny,” wrote Badri Khamenei, calling for the Revolutionary Guards to “drop their arms as soon as possible and join the people before it’s too late”.
The strikes called by the activists continued today for the third straight day in various cities across the country, despite threats against the traders, but during the day the protests mainly affected the universities, where there were arrests and clashes with the police. “The students are smart and hate the dictatorship,” shout some students at a Tehran university. Among them, some had no veil.
Shortly before, President Ebrahim Raisi entered the capital’s university with an escort to give a speech to a carefully selected audience, according to the opposition media, on the occasion of Student Day. “Some had advised me not to come here today,” said the ultra-conservative president, arguing that “there is no problem protesting” in Iran, but “protest is different from revolt.”
Meanwhile, the rift is widening between the western world and the regime of the ayatollahs, who have again attacked the United States and Europe for immediately criticizing the repression of the demonstrations that began on September 16 following the death of Mahsa Amini 22- Year-old who lost her life after being taken into custody for not wearing the veil correctly. Washington and European countries have supported “subversives and rioters,” thundered Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, promising that “steps of this nature will not go unanswered” and accusing American and German politicians of meeting “with groups of separatist terrorists in Iraqi Kurdistan” in Tehran according to deliver weapons to protesters. The Islamic Republic official also called French President Emmanuel Macron “stupid” for claiming a revolution was underway in Iran and accused two Frenchmen who are in Iranian prisons of “being secret agents involved in the unrest.” are” whose “mission” is to be fulfilled. Tehran is aware of this. (HAND).
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