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Iran has threatened legal action against the US, accusing it of having a “direct involvement” in the nationwide protests.
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Iran has been engulfed in anti-government protests following the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, on September 16. Amini passed away after being removed off the streets of Tehran by morality police and transported to a “re-education center” for wearing a hijab incorrectly.
In cities and villages all around the nation, strikes and protests have become frequent sights. In the capital, chants of “death to the dictator”—a reference to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei—oftentimes resound.
In addition, the United States imposed penalties against Iran’s moral police for “violence and abuse against Iranian women and the violation of the rights of peaceful Iranian protesters” and said it was working to make it simpler for Iranians to access the internet.
On Sunday, October 23, Tehran announced its intention to sue Washington and issued warnings to the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia, saying their actions in hosting and supporting TV networks like BBC Persian and Iran International — which it claimed had incited protesters to “destroy public and private properties” — would not be “ignored by the Islamic Republic’s judiciary system.”
Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday October 21, that the Justice Department “has been tasked to file a lawsuit in order to investigate the damages and meddling inflicted by the U.S.’s direct involvement in the unrest.”
IRNA also reported the claims against the BBC and Iran International, made by the deputy head of the Iranian Judiciary and secretary of the country’s High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi.
Over the weekend, videos of protests against the Iranian regime showed a crowd at Tehran’s Shahid Behasti University chanting “Freedom, freedom, death to the dictator, death to Khamenei.”
Students at Tabriz University in East Azerbaijan province also took to the streets chanting in unison that regime change was on the horizon, according to IranWire, and at Yazd University in Yazd province, students sang a century-old pre-revolutionary anthem.
Watch videos of protests below
45 Seconds of Defiance: An Iranian woman blocks the street, headscarf off, arms uncovered, combs her hair for the world (and the regime) to see. All are crimes in today’s #Iran , as protests enter day 38 pic.twitter.com/CCH4xLznup
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) October 24, 2022
Please Share!#GhazalehChalabi , a 32 year old girl, was filming the protests with her mobile phone in #Iran. She was killed by a direct bullet fired by the Islamic Republic regime. #IranProrests2022
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— Iman Sefati (@ISefati) October 21, 2022
