Eye on Iran's Protests - November 7, 2022
A protest movement is sweeping Iran in the aftermath of the killing of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the so-called “morality police.” UANI’s Eye on Iran’s Protests is a daily news and events round-up to increase awareness of this movement and the regime’s brutal response. Now is the time to support the Iranian people.
Protester Deaths Mount In Iran’s Border Provinces, Group Says | Bloomberg
16 people, including a child, were killed last Friday in the town of Khash in the restive Sistan-Baluchestan province, which borders Afghanistan. Yesterday, large protests broke out in the city of Marivan in the Kurdish province of Iran in response to the brutal beating of a Kurdish-Iranian student in Tehran, named Nasrin Ghaderi, which resulted in her death. Protesters in Marivan were further enraged by the fact that they were denied access to her funeral. Iran’s security forces reportedly fire live ammunition at protesters in these provinces more frequently than in other major cities.
Debris cluttered the streets of Marivan as of this morning.
Shops were closed down in Marivan.
Hengaw: 61 Kurds Killed In Iran’s Protests | Kurdistan 24
61 of the approximately 300 people killed by security forces since the start of protests on September 16 are believed to be Kurdish, Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported today. At least 41 of those killed are believed to be children.
Iranian Lawmakers Urge Judiciary To Sentence Protesters To Death | Iran International
A staggering 227 out of 290 parliamentary members in Iran urged the Iranian judiciary to sentence those detained in the protests to death. Legal action was also encouraged against certain unnamed politicians for inciting the “riots.” The parliamentary speaker, former IRGC commander and former chief of Iran’s Law Enforcement Forces (LEF) Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, leads a large faction of hardliners elected to parliament in a thoroughly manipulated election in February 2020.
Dozens Arrested As Iranian Security Forces Attack University Campuses | The Guardian
Security forces intensified their efforts to suppress the protests, storming college campuses across the country, arresting and detaining dozens on Friday. Activists fear that these students could face the death penalty and be subject to brutal treatment while in custody.
Despite the brutality of the regime’s enforcers, students continue to gather in opposition.
At the end of last week, a massive crowd in Qazvin chanted against the regime to commemorate the death of Javad Heydari at the hands of security forces.
Warning: Graphic content. An Iranian teenager was shot dead by security forces in Khorramdasht, Iran.
Statement On Formal Threats To The Life Of Journalists On U.K. Soil | Iran International
The Iranian regime is conducting a campaign to intimidate and harass journalists working abroad. The lives of two London-based journalists working for Iran International have reportedly been threatened in this campaign. Iran International issued a statement noting that the IRGC would likely be involved in any such efforts to kill or harm foreign journalists, and called this campaign an attempt on behalf of the regime to “export” its media crackdown.
A 32-year-old underground dissident rapper named Toomaj Salehi was violently arrested on Saturday, along with his two friends; he now faces crimes punishable by death. He stands accused of propagandizing against the government, cooperating with foreign hostile powers, and forming illegal groups with the intention of sowing instability in Iran. These trumped-up charges may be a reaction to the rapper’s lyrics, some of which call out the governments’ abusive punishment of people who do not abide by its severe interpretation of the Quran.
Iran Celebrates 1979 U.S. Embassy Seizure Amid Anti-Government Protests | Reuters
The regime’s support base appeared at government-sponsored rallies around Iran to commemorate the seizure of the U.S. embassy in early November 1979. Radicals seized the embassy after Ayatollah Khomeini triumphantly returned to Iran from Paris following the deposition of the Shah.
The instruments of violence being deployed by the regime against peaceful protesters include a range of anti-riot and military equipment, such as water cannons, armored vehicles, stun grenades, tear gas, shotguns loaded with pellets, paintball guns, and military-grade weaponry.
Iran’s Hard-Liners Are Starting to Crack | Wall Street Journal
“This time is different,” reads the opening line of an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. The current protests in Iran are having an impact on regime hardliners, according to these authors. Some of these hardliners are reportedly starting to distance themselves from Supreme Leader Khamenei, but the authors admit it is too soon to infer that the elite is fracturing.
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