Female students in Tehran loudly denounced President Ebrahim Raisi, shouting “get lost” – Fourth week of protests after the death of Makhsa Amini
Female students in Tehran shouted “get lost” at the president of Iran Ibrahim Raisiwhen he visited their university today and condemned the protesters who mobilized on the occasion of the death of the young Mahsha Amini after she was arrested by the moral police.
Raishi addressed professors and students at Tehran’s Alzahra University and recited a poem likening the “riots” to flies.
The protests in Iran are entering their fourth week.
“They imagine that they can achieve their evil purposes in universities. They are ignorant that our students and professors are vigilant and will not allow the enemy to carry out its evil purposes,” state television reported.
A video posted on Twitter by activist website 1500tasvir shows female students rhythmically chanting “Raisi, get lost” and “Moulades, get lost” as the president visits the university. In other videos students say “We don’t want a corrupt visitor,” referring to Raisi.
Reuters was unable to verify the authenticity of the videos.
According to the forensic report, the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini she did not die from blows to the head and limbs received while in police custody but her death was due to a pre-existing condition. Amini, who was of Kurdish origin, was arrested on September 13 in Tehran for not wearing her hijab properly and died three days later. Her death sparked protests across the country – the biggest challenge Iran’s leadership has faced in years.
Women remove their headscarves in defiance of the priesthood as angry crowds call for the removal of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The government says the protests are a plan by Iran’s enemies, including the US, and blames armed dissidents for violence that has reportedly killed at least 20 members of the security forces.
According to human rights groups, more than 185 people were killed, hundreds were injured and thousands were arrested by security forces.
Following the call for mass protests today, security forces fired and used tear gas in the Kurdish towns of Sanandaj and Sakez, the Iranian-Kurdish Hengaw group said.
In Sanadaj, the capital of Kurdistan province, a man lay dead in his car and a woman screamed “Shameless”, according to Hengaw which claims security forces shot the man when he honked his horn in protest. But a senior police officer repeated the claim that no live bullets were used and that the man was killed by “counter-revolutionaries” (armed dissidents), state news agency IRNA reported.
A video shows a young woman unconscious on the ground after she was apparently shot in the city of Mashhad. Other protesters have gathered around her to help her.
Norway-based Iran Human Rights said on its website that at least 185 people, including 19 children, had been killed in the protests. Half of the deaths were recorded in Sistan-Baluchistan province.
State television showed footage of him Ayatollah Khamenei on the evening news when the broadcast was interrupted, apparently by hackers. The image of the Ayatollah was engulfed in flames and the message “Rise and join us” appeared, along with the address of the hacker group “Edalate Ali” on the Internet.
This group had revealed last year the mistreatment of prisoners in a prison where mostly political prisoners are sent.
A call for unity
President Raisi, the speaker of parliament and the head of the judiciary earlier called for unity. “Now, Iranian society needs the unity of all its layers, regardless of language, religion and ethnicity, to overcome the hostility and division sown by anti-Iranians,” Raisi said in his message broadcast by state media.
Footage posted on social media shows protesters marching in the northern Iranian city of Babol. Multiple posts said security forces surrounded students protesting at a university. Hengaw also released a video of paramedics trying to resuscitate a person and reported that a protester was shot dead in the abdomen in Sanandaj city.
Reuters was unable to verify the authenticity of the video.
One of the schools in Sakez town square was filled with girls chanting “Woman, Life, Freedom,” according to Hengaw.
And the 1500tasvir Twitter account reported shootings at protesters in two Kurdish cities.
A student heading to the protest rally in Tehran said he was not afraid of being arrested or killed. “They can kill us, arrest us, but we will not be silent any longer. Our fellow students are in prison. How can we be silent?’ the student, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.
State media played down the protests in Tehran, calling the protests “limited” in dozens of areas. One media outlet reported that many traders had closed their shops for fear of being damaged in the riots, denying that a strike had been called.
According to NetBlocks, the internet connection has been interrupted again in the city of Sanandaj.
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