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Source: The Guardian and agencies
Iran marchers call for execution of anti-government protesters
Army signals it is prepared to crush dissent after unrest over death of Mahsa Amini in police custody
Patrick Wintour and agencies
Fri 23 Sep 2022 18.28 BST
First published on Fri 23 Sep 2022 13.40 BST
Pro-government rallies have taken place in several cities across Iran in an attempt to counter a week of mounting unrest triggered by the death of a woman in police custody.
Marchers called for anti-government protesters to be executed, while the army signalled that it was prepared to crush dissent by telling Iranians that it would confront the enemies behind the unrest.
Demonstrators condemned the anti-government protesters as Israels soldiers, live state television coverage showed. They also shouted Death to America and Death to Israel, common slogans the countrys clerical rulers use to try and stir up support for authorities, who claimed the demonstrations of support were spontaneous. Offenders of the Quran must be executed, the crowds chanted.
A state TV anchor said the death toll in the protests that erupted last Saturday after the funeral of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini could be as high as 26, without elaborating on how that figure was reached. Anti-government protesters voicing pent-up anger over social and political repression have taken to the streets in several major cities in the most severe political unrest since 2019, when rights groups say hundreds were killed amid demonstrations against a hike in state-controlled petrol prices.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/23/iran-reportedly-arrests-journalist-activist-mahsa-amini-protests
KPN
(15,585 posts)If not, better start paying attention because that is where MAGA/Trumpism is pushing us. We need to navigate carefully from here forward. In addition to exceptional leadership, we will need persistence and patience. We really do need to give MAGA leaders and defenders enough rope to hang themselves rather than us do it to them. Let them be squashed by their own weight and malevolence.
OAITW r.2.0
(23,810 posts)The differences between the Iranian Morality Police and Republican Evangelicals is indistinguishable. Both want the power and the means to enforce their dogma.