Forty days after Iran’s infamous morality police allegedly killed 22-year-old Masa Amini for not properly covering his hair with a hijab, protests against the Iranian regime continue to stall.
The 40-day mourning period for Iranian Kurdish Amini ended Wednesday, coinciding with mass protests at Amini’s hometown of Sakez and her grave at Aichi Cemetery.
“Security forces fired tear gas and opened fire on people in Jindan Square, Sakez city,” tweeted Hengo, a Norwegian-based human rights group that monitors the situation of Kurds in Iran.
Sardar Pashaei, an Iranian-American human rights activist and former head coach of Iran’s national wrestling team, told Fox News Digital from his hometown of Saqez that Iranian regime security forces used live ammunition against protesters. He said he had received a report.
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The Islamic Republic-controlled news agency Iran Students News Agency claimed that “a limited number of people at the monument to Martha Amini clashed with police on the outskirts of Saqez and were dispersed.”
Ahead of Amini’s 40-day memorial service, US special envoy for Iran Robert Murray tweeted in favor of mainstreaming Iran’s “government” rather than pursuing democracy in Iran. accused by Iranian activists of Since criticism of his tweet, Murray told Iran International that he was “poorly worded” and that it was “important to admit his mistakes”.
Lisa Daftari, editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk, told Fox News Digital: On the one hand, it condemns the crackdown and provides support to protesters, while on the other it pursues a policy of normalizing relations with the regime. ”
“The Biden administration suspended nuclear talks, but Robert Murray said early in the protests that the United States would not support a policy of regime change,” she added.
The Biden administration is working to secure a nuclear deal with the controversial Islamic Republic of Iran. The full name of the Iran nuclear deal, the Comprehensive Joint Plan of Action, has infuriated some Iranian-Americans and politicians in the Capitol.
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“Despite a horrific crackdown that has resulted in the violent and senseless deaths of hundreds of mostly young Iranian students, the Iranian people are determined to turn this movement into a successful regime overthrow,” Daftali said. is stronger than ever,” he said.
After Amini’s death, the slogan “Women, Freedom of Life”, which emerged as a battle cry against the Islamic Republic of Iran, was chanted by dozens of men and women at Aichi Cemetery. Protesters also shouted “death to the dictator”, referring to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the totalitarian ruler of Iran’s clerical regime.
Pashaei, who is Iranian Kurdish, told Fox News Digital: [Saqqez]they send me videos of tens of thousands of people on the streets to honor Gina [Masha Amini]After 40 days of tear gas, batons and bullets, it’s incredible that these brave people are still standing up to the clerical government. “
Online video footage showed demonstrators at the Aichi Cemetery in western Kurdistan. Some reports claim up to 50,000 people attended.
Amini is an Iranian Kurdish, Pashaei said: It turned her death into a cry for change.
“For Kurds, this is more than just a slogan, it is a philosophy of life. Kurdish women understand the importance of democracy. Women and youth are at the forefront of fighting a culture of misogyny.” We oppose totalitarian governments.”
Marjan Keypour Greenblatt, an Iranian-American and director of the Alliance for Rights of All Minorities, told Fox News Digital: t deterred movement, it strengthened it. “
“People continue to participate in various forms of demonstrations and they are fighting for their lives. With each repression, the Iranian regime proves its illegitimacy and powerlessness,” she said. added.
Comments from Iranian-Americans to Fox News Digital cast modern Persian words, “blood unjustly spilled will boil until the end of time,” given the protests that have rocked the Islamic Republic since 2019. imbues it with meaningful meaning.
The ongoing unrest is the first serious threat to the existence of the Islamic Republic since nationwide protests in 2019, when Iranians filled the streets to protest the regime’s economic and political corruption.
The regime killed about 1,500 Iranians during demonstrations in 2019, according to a Reuters investigation.
Current protesters continue to defy the regime’s deadly violence, which has left 141 dead as of Tuesday, according to the Norway-based Iranian human rights group. He lost 29 children in the wave of chaos, according to the IHR.
The Iranian regime claims Amini died in police custody of a heart attack.Amini’s family and protesters say the clerical regime covered up Amini’s torture and killing.
Ali Fadavi, deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a US-sanctioned terrorist organization, said in early October that the average age of those arrested was 15.
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Fadavi lashed out at the youth on Barkat News, a pro-Iran regime news outlet, declaring: .”
“Among the confessions of arrested teenagers and young people, some have spoken of common keywords such as inciting street riots with computer games, addiction and a strong reliance on virtual spaces,” Fadavi said. Added.
Saeed Ghaseminejad, Iran expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, told Fox News Digital: The Biden administration is waiting for the protests to subside to return to a policy of begging Ayatollah Khamenei to accept his $1 trillion package in exchange for limited, temporary, and reversible nuclear concessions. increase. The Iranians want their country back from the repressive regime that turned it into a home of Islamist terrorism and a close ally of China and Russia. “
Pashaei called on the US government to “strengthen dialogue and vocally support Iran’s opposition parties, including those in the US and Western Europe.”
Iranian-American Mariam Memalsadeghi, a fellow at the McDonald’s Laurier Institute, told Fox News Digital: Pious and traditional — they despise this regime and will not stop until it is taken from them.In Martha Amini, the Iranians see themselves as innocent and worthy of life and liberty.
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When asked about today’s protests in Iran, a spokesman for the US State Department told Fox News Digital: This brutal and violent suppression of peaceful protests shows that the Iranian government is clearly afraid of its own people. We continue to work with a wide range of international partners to respond to the Iranian authorities’ treatment of women and the ongoing violent crackdown on peaceful protesters. . “
Asked about Murray’s tweets and calls for his resignation, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital, referring to a statement by US State Department spokesman Ned Price, who said Murray was “for the people of Iran, or We will never speak for the Iranian people.It is our responsibility to make their aspirations clear, and we hear their aspirations every day.We want to continue. After all, they are expressing and exercising rights that are as universal to them as they are to anyone else.”
‘Marie is a great civil servant. He’s the one who guided our approach to this set of challenges,’ said Price.