Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was greeted with chants of “getting lost” by female students while visiting a university and condemned the protests resulting from the death of a young woman while in custody for not wearing the veil correctly.
A video posted on Twitter from the website of activist 1500tasvir showed what were said to be female students singing “Raisi si perdono” and “The mullahs are lost” while the president visited their campus. Another video on social media showed students chanting: “We don’t want a corrupt guest,” in reference to Raisi.
Raisi addressed professors and students from Tehran’s Alzahra University, reciting a poem identifying “rioters” with flies, while nationwide demonstrations entered week four in response to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last month. while in police custody.
The protests erupted on September 17, after the burial of Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in the custody of the feared Iranian police of morality. Amini was arrested for allegedly violating strict Islamic dress codes for women. Since then, the protests have spread across the country and have been met with fierce crackdowns, in which dozens of people are estimated to have been killed and hundreds have been arrested.
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Ebrahim Raisi on the presidential election day of the Islamic Republic.
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Two people were reportedly killed as protests continued across the country on Saturday.
The United States said last month that it will sanction Iranian security officials in response to Amini’s death.
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Protesters catch fire and block the street during a protest over the death of a woman who was arrested by the moral police in central Tehran, Iran.
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“In response to this and other human rights violations in Iran, including the violent crackdown on peaceful protests, the United States is imposing sanctions on the Iranian moral police and senior security officials who have committed serious human rights violations, under Executive Order 13553, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
“The moral police, an element of the Iranian law enforcement (LEF), arrest women for wearing the ‘inappropriate’ hijab and impose other restrictions on freedom of expression. The Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Treasury further designates Haj Ahmad Mirzaei and Mohammad Rostami Cheshmeh Gachi, both senior officials of the moral police “.
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A woman cuts her hair during a protest over the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Mahsa Amini in Iran’s Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on September 26, 2022.
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Protesters spoke out against the Iranian regime around the world, including the Netherlands, where thousands of people gathered on Saturday and sang in solidarity with the Iranian protesters.
Reuters contributed to this report.
