The Washington Post has a special report on the violence being used against Iranians protesting the brutal theocratic regime and the murder of Mahsa Amini. Indiscriminate force, violent arrests and restricting the Internet are tools being used by the repressive regime, and the Post provides video evidence (at the link):
Iran’s bold and bracing protests, stretching across an unsettled nation for more than two weeks, have been marked by defiant acts and daring slogans that challenge the country’s clerical leadership and its stifling restrictions on all aspects of social life.
Government security forces have responded with deadly, uncompromising force. At least 52 people have been killed, according to Amnesty International, including women and children.
The ongoing protests began in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who fell into a coma after being detained by the country’s hated “morality police.”
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, claimed Monday that the unrest had been instigated by foreign powers and blamed protesters for the violence: “The ones who attack the police are leaving Iranian citizens defenseless against thugs, robbers and extortionists,” he said.
Khamenei gave his full backing to the security forces, signaling a further wave of repression could be coming.
The report concludes:
Despite the violence by security forces — and the daily blackouts — protesters are still in the streets. To some, the crackdown has only made them more determined. The protester in Tehran recalled a scene from a recent protest, where he and his compatriots dragged trash cans into the street and set them on fire. As security forces approached on motorcycles, they began to chant:
“We didn’t have our people killed in order to compromise.”
The videos are an important record of the violent abuse and killings taking place in Iran. It's, of course, not a coincidence that this murderous regime is aligned with that of war criminal Putin. We can only hope they meet the same fate.
