The head of Iran's brutal Revolutionary Guard has warned Iranians protesting the regime's medieval religious strictures that demonstrations must end today, suggesting an even more violent crackdown is coming. From the Guardian:
"The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has told protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, in a sign that security forces may intensify their crackdown on unrest sweeping the country.
Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, in the custody of the morality police last month, posing one of the boldest challenges to the clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.
'Do not come to the streets. Today is the last day of riots,' commander Hossein Salami said in some of the toughest language used in the crisis, which Iran’s clerical leadership blames on its foreign enemies including Israel and the US.
'This sinister plan, is a plan hatched … in the White House and the Zionist regime,' he said.
The Revolutionary Guards, which report directly to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have not been deployed since demonstrations began on 16 September. They are an elite force with a track record of crushing dissent." (our emphasis)
This is what illegitimate regimes do in the face of dissent. This time in Iran, the public seems more aroused and angry at the religious zealots who have run the country for over 40 years, and who enforce "morality" as they interpret their religious texts.
Prepare to see gunfire from the Revolutionary Guard at protesters without regard to human life, as the situation in Iran descends into more state violence against its people.
