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Huge Riots Erupt Allover Iran after 'Morality Police' Kills Woman, People Want the END of Islamism

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In the footage, a sizable audience applauds as a lady raises a pair of scissors to her hair while showing no sign of wearing a headscarf. She chops off her ponytail and raises her fist in the air as the sea of people, many of whom are guys, yell.

It was a potent display of defiance on Tuesday night in Kerman, Iran, where women are required to cover their heads in public. It was just one of numerous demonstrations that were held nationwide in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who passed away while in the custody of the police, last week.

Videos of demonstrations from dozens of towns and cities, including the capital Tehran and more staunchly conservative strongholds like Mashad, showed thousands of people taking to the streets on Tuesday night.

Some demonstrators can be seen shouting, “Women, life, freedom,” in the video. Others may be seen building bonfires, tussling with the police, taking off their headscarves, burning them, tearing down pictures of the nation’s Supreme Leader, and yelling “Death to the tyrant.”

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In a video taken in Tehran, teenage protestors march at nighttime around a bonfire while yelling: “We are war’s offspring. Fight on, and we’ll return the favor.”

There have also been protests in almost every provincial town in Iran’s Kurdish territory, including Kermanshah and Hamedan.

The breadth, intensity, and uncommon female character of the rallies are notable; the last demonstrations of this size were three years ago after the government raised gas prices in 2019.

According to a source, there was at least one incidence of a harsh police response on Tuesday, close to Iran’s Enghelab (“Revolution”) Square, which has historically served as a focal point for rallies and is located on the western side of Tehran University.

According to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, an organization established in Norway that keeps track of human rights abuses in Iran, at least five protestors have been shot and killed during rallies in the Kurdish area over the previous several days.

Over the weekend, additional 75 injuries were reported in other cities.

After Amini, who was stopped and imprisoned by Iran’s morality police last Tuesday, died, demonstrations broke out.

According to Iranian officials, Amini passed away last Friday after having a “heart attack” and going into a coma after being arrested.

However, according to Emtedad news, a pro-reform media organization in Iran that claimed to have spoken to Amini’s father, her family indicated she did not have a pre-existing cardiac issue.

Amini seemed to collapse at a “re-education” center where she was transferred to get “advice” on her wardrobe, according to edited security camera footage posted by Iran’s official media.

The morality police of Iran are charged with upholding the harsh social regulations of the Islamic Republic, particularly its dress code that requires women to cover their heads with a headscarf, or hijab, in public.

In a meeting with Amini’s family in their house on Monday, a representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reportedly pledged to conduct a “thorough inquiry” into her passing, according to Iran’s semi-official Nour News.

Make no mistake about it, these riots are not just against the regime but against the fundamentalist Islamism that is ruling over them with an iron fist. Most people are demanding a return to the Pahlavi era type of Iran where they had basic human rights and freedoms.

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2 Responses to " Huge Riots Erupt Allover Iran after 'Morality Police' Kills Woman, People Want the END of Islamism "

  1. What if… All Iranian women and little girls left Iran?

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  2. Not too difficult to see that the USATAN is behind the riots in order to get regime change in Iran.

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