There are clashes, strikes and boos against President Raisí by a group of students
Iran lived this Saturday one of the hardest days of the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Aminiwith clashes in a dozen citiesstrikes and boos to the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, in mobilizations that enter their fourth week.
After three days off without protests – Wednesday was a holiday and Thursday and Friday are the weekend in the country – the Iranian week began with renewed cries of “Woman, freedom life & rdquor; after calls for demonstrations by university centers and activists.
In the surroundings of Tehran’s prestigious Sharif University, small groups of young men and women without veils milled around corners from which they threw slogans, amid a heavy police presence, with dozens of riot police in the area.
“Support us, support us policemen!“, a woman who was not wearing a veil shouted in the vicinity of the university center to the riot police officers present to join the protesters.
In a tense atmosphere, some people argued with police, while the first tear gas began to darken the streets.
“Death to the Islamic Republic”shouted a group of young people in a side street of the university, to which they added “Islamic Republic we don’t love you, we don’t love you“.
A man shouted “you have no honor” to the agents, while several of the shops in the area had their shutters half down. Shots could also be heard, but it was not possible to distinguish what type.
In the capital, the protests spread to different points, from the southern Grand Bazaar, to the northern Tajrish square.
Shariati Street, also in the north, was cut off by the Police, who fired pellets at the protesters, eyewitnesses told EFE.
A dead
Protests were also experienced in other parts of the country, such as in the cities of Shiraz, Isfahan, Gohardasht or Kerman, among others, according to unverified videos shared on social networks by activists and journalists.
The shocks were being especially harsh in Iranian Kurdistanregion of origin of Amini, where also in its capital, Sanandaj, there was a day of strike with closed shops.
in that city a person who was driving in a car was shot dead, a death that the province’s police chief, General Ali Azadi, attributed to “counterrevolutionary forces & rdquor; and the Oslo-based NGO Hengaw to the security forces.
In the face of strong protests, mobile internet services were blocked, something that had not happened in recent days. There were also restrictions on fixed internet, whose speed dropped significantly.
“get lost”
While this was happening, Raisí gave a speech at Alzahra University in Tehranexclusively female, where he stated that Iranian students will not allow “the enemy’s dreams to come true & rdquor; and where according to unverified videos of activists he was fired with jeers.
“The enemy thought that he could seek his objectives in the university, without realizing that the students and professors are awake and will not allow the false dreams of the enemy to come true,” said the president.
On his way out, a group of students shouted at the president: “Get lost, get lost&rdquor ;, according to unverified videos.
The head of communication at the university, Faride Haghbin, later downplayed the screams by stating that only about 15 students “with the instigation of some external (foreign) factors” they had launched slogans.
previous ailment
Amini, 22, died on September 16 after being detained three days before for the call morale police in Tehran considering that lshe was wearing the islamic veil wrong.
Iran’s state-run Forensic Medicine Organization said on Friday that Amini died from a previous ailment and not from police beatings.
The state agency’s forensic report determined that the young woman’s death was due to multiple organ failure after brain hypoxia (decreased oxygen) and was not “caused by blows to the head and vital organs and limbs of the body.”
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