Eye on Iran's Protests - October 9, 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.
'A Time Bomb': Anger Rising In A Hot Spot Of Iran Protests | Associated Press
Desnd youth, these acts include removing the hijab in public; students boycotting classes; shopkeepers going on strike; protesters gathering in large demonstrations; regime opponents fighting back against security personnel, blocking off streets, and in some cases attacking regime assets and installations. “We are just waiting for something to happen, like a time-bomb,” one 35-year-old university graduate said.
Iran Protests Are Proving A Durable Challenge To The Islamic Republic | Wall Street Journal
This Wall Street Journal article underscores the fact that the ongoing protests in Iran are proving to be a durable expression of wide-spread condemnation against the fundamental underpinnings of the Islamic Republic. The peaceful act of removing the hijab – “the most visible symbol of adherence to the Islamic Republic’s ultraconservative interpretation of Islam” – is revolutionary and hard to contain. The spontaneous and unpredictable nature of the protests is stretching security forces thin; while the fact that they are ostensibly leaderless makes them impossible to “decapitate.”
Protests Grip Iran As Rights Group Says 19 Children Killed | Reuters
A credible human rights group reported that at least 185 people have been killed in the anti-regime protests since they began on September 17, 2022 at the funeral of Mahsa Amini in her Kurdish town of Saqez. Half of the killings took place in Sistan and Baluchistan province, the organization Iran Human Rights said yesterday. At least 19 of the 185 people killed were reportedly children. This Reuters article also mentioned that school girls came under attack in the city of Bandar Abbas.
This video shows pictures of some of those who have paid the ultimate price in fighting for their freedom from oppression in Iran.
A mother mourned the death of her son at the hands of security forces.
Large crowds of school girls gathered and chanted in the school yard.
School girls fled security forces in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.
Iranian Security Forces Arresting Children In School, Reports Claim | The Guardian
The Guardian identified several social media reports of Iranian schoolchildren being arrested by security forces inside school premises. Authorities have also shut down schools and universities in Iran’s Kurdistan region.
Women defiantly walked the streets of Tehran with no hijab. Cars honked in support.
Male and female university students resisted gender segregation by eating lunch together.
Massive protests took place at Amir Kabir University in Tehran today.
Grassroot Groups Forming In Iranian Cities As Protests Continue | Iran International
Efforts are being made in some Iranian cities to organize grassroot support for the anti-regime protests, Iran International reported. One of these grassroot groups, known as the Youth of Tehran Neighborhoods, has reportedly helped organize protests and rallies in the capital. They have issued statements calling for nation-wide protests and an end to the bloody crackdown.
A mob of protesters attacked security personnel believed to be members of the Basij.
Last night, protesters threw Molotov cocktails at Basij installations in Tehran.
Riot police could be seen walking alongside large crowds of protesters on the street.
These photos purportedly depict IRGC and Basij personnel deployed in Tehran.
In Mashhad, security forces shattered the windows of a car with people inside it.
Warning: sensitive content. Multiple security officers beat what appears to be a child with batons.
Warning: sensitive content. Multiple videos emerged on Twitter today of regime personnel using excessive force against detainees. In this video, several officers with batons ruthlessly beat a prisoner.
Iranian Media Plays Down Protests As Female Students Denounce President Raisi | Iran Wire
Hardline newspapers in Iran called on security forces to use more force against protesters and act against Western powers, which they claim are behind the unrest, Iran Wire reported. Many of the papers, including state-run papers, are downplaying the protests, suggesting that they are small in size and few in number.
Large crowds gathered outside the White House yesterday, waving the Iranian flag in solidarity with the ongoing protest movement inside Iran.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock reportedly called on the EU to freeze the assets of those behind the crackdown on protesters. She also said those responsible should be barred from entering EU countries.
Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly will convene female foreign ministers from around the world in a virtual meeting meant to coordinate diplomatic pressure against the regime in Tehran. The initiative will show “Canadian leadership… to stand up with the courageous women of Iran right now fighting for their freedom,” the Canadian foreign minister said.
The Personal Is Political: Iran Protests For A Normal Life | The Lowy Institute
Since the beginning of the Islamic Republic in 1979, the regime has resorted to violence to suppress female opposition to the hijab mandate. Women took to the street on March 8, 1979 – International Women’s Day – to protest the mandate, and security forces attacked them. Patriarchy and its violent enforcement are legacies of the Islamic Revolution. But it is not only women who face oppression within the current system. The protest movement is made up of Iranian people from different walks of life, who feel that their rights and freedoms have not been respected. Many of them born after the Islamic Revolution, they make up a generation that is less committed to the founding principles of the Islamic Republic – and its leaders – than their forefathers.
Iran’s Protests Are the First Counter-Revolution Led By Women | New Yorker
“The girls and women of Iran are just bitchin’ brave, flipping the bird at its Supreme Leader in a challenge to one of the most significant revolutions in modern history.” In this New Yorker essay, Middle East scholar Robin Wright argues that, for the first time, women are leading a counterrevolution centered upon women’s freedom.
Anti-regime propaganda art depicts the feminist icon Rosie the Riveter with her red bandana off and her biceps squeezing the life out of a clerical figure. The title reads: “women, life, freedom,” one of the protest movement’s main slogans.
This piece of art displays a woman with bruises and birdshot in her back. She is cutting her hair, and in doing so, freeing herself from the police, the military, and the clerics, who are clinging onto her hair.
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