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A woman told BBC Persian that her neighborhood had been turned into a “battlefield” and that the Iranians had entered the war. In recent days in the capital Tehran is scary: citizens have attacked police buildings and patrol cars. There are also a number of inmates. The police even broke into people’s homes, as videos from social networks show.
A few days ago, the demonstrators even took over an administrative building, climbing onto the balcony and starting to break various objects. A woman got into a car, demonstratively took off her hijab and started waving it in protest against the moral police who arrested Amini last week. The woman of Kurdish origin from the northwestern city of Sakez died last Friday in a hospital in Tehran after three days in a coma.
President Raisi reiterated the authorities’ thesis that the young Mahsa Amini was not beaten by the police but suffered a “sudden heart attack”. Protesters reject these findings and point to evidence that officers hit the woman in the head.
Raisi told protesters that this “act of chaos” is unacceptable. The Iranian president told the UN General Assembly that he had ordered an investigation into Amini’s death. “There is freedom of expression in Iran … but the acts of chaos are unacceptable,” he said.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have called on the judiciary to prosecute “those who spread false news and rumors” – an apparent attempt to defuse tensions in nationwide demonstrations.
Kurdish human rights group Hengaw released a video showing heavy gunfire during a protest and accused security forces of “using heavy and semi-heavy weapons against civilians” in the northwestern city of Oshnavieh. The administration of US President Joe Biden has sanctioned the so-called Iranian moral police for alleged abuse and violence against Iranian women and protesters. Seven leaders of Iranian security organizations were also sanctioned who, according to the State Department, “regularly use violence to crack down on peaceful protesters and members of Iranian civil society, political dissidents, women’s rights activists and members of the Baha’i community. i Iranian. “
“Mahsa Amini is a courageous woman whose death in police custody is yet another act of brutality by the Iranian regime’s security forces against her own people,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement. “We condemn this unreasonable act in the strongest possible terms and call on the Iranian government to put an end to the violence.”
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