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Eugene

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Fri Sep 23, 2022, 02:15 PM Sep 2022

Iran marchers call for execution of anti-government protesters

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 “Israel’s soldiers”, live state television coverage showed. They also shouted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, common slogans the country’s clerical rulers use to try and stir up support for authorities, who claimed the demonstrations of support were spontaneous. “Offenders of the Qur’an 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

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Iran marchers call for execution of anti-government protesters (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2022 OP
Could you imagine living in a country like that? KPN Sep 2022 #1
+1 A shame we can't rec comments. OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2022 #2
Exactly. KPN Sep 2022 #3

KPN

(15,585 posts)
1. Could you imagine living in a country like that?
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 02:29 PM
Sep 2022

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)
2. +1 A shame we can't rec comments.
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 03:46 PM
Sep 2022

The differences between the Iranian Morality Police and Republican Evangelicals is indistinguishable. Both want the power and the means to enforce their dogma.

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