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Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander warns protesters against taking to the streets

Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander warns protesters against taking to the streets

By Omayma othmani

Published: October 29, 2022

The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salami the protesters warned that Saturday would be the last day they go out to the streets. He said: "Do not go out to the streets! Today is the last day of rioting." Also, Iran has been witnessing protests since the death of the 22-year-old Kurdish young woman Mahsa Amini during her detention by the morality police last month. The protests have also turned into a popular revolution involving angry Iranians from all social classes, forming one of the most daring challenges to the clerical leaders since the 1979 revolution. Additionally, human rights groups said that at least 250 protesters have been killed and thousands arrested across Iran. In the same context, footage circulated on social media on Friday showed protesters chanting "Death to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei" and the Basij forces who played a major role in suppressing the protesters. Furthermore, Iranian security forces targeted a hospital and student housing, according to a rights group on Saturday, coinciding with the seventh week of the protest movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, died after being detained in Tehran on charges of violating the strict dress code imposed on women in the Islamic Republic. Security forces tried hard to control the protests led by women that turned into a broader campaign to overthrow the Islamic Republic system established in 1979. During ceremonies held on Saturday marking 40 days since the killing of a protester in the city of Divandarreh (west), protesters chanted "Death to the dictator," a slogan targeting the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Human rights groups report that riot police killed Mohsen Mohammadi (28 years old) by shooting him during protests in Divandarreh on September 19, and he died the following day at Kowsar Hospital in Sanandaj (west). Also the "Hengaw" rights organization reported that security forces fired at dozens of people gathered outside the same hospital late Friday to protect another injured protester. The Norway-based organization said: "Repression forces fired at people gathered in front of Kowsar Hospital in Sanandaj to defend Ashkan Marooti." It added that "these forces wanted to arrest Ashkan Marooti while he was injured," before posting on Twitter a photo said to be of him on a stretcher alongside one of the paramedics.

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