Courage or ignorance of danger? in Iranriot after her death 22 year old Mahsa Aminiremains alive despite the repression of the regime.
Now a new focus can be found in many regions of the country: anti-government protests that have swept the country have spread to university halls and beyond classes.
Specifically, a new video posted online shows schoolgirls interrupting one member of the Basij paramilitary Iran. Teenagers wave handkerchiefs in the air and shout:go away, bastard» to a man who was asked to address them.
BBC – who broadcast the report – notes that he was unable to verify reports that the incident took place in Shiraz last Tuesday.
The Girls’ School invites a member of the Basij Volunteer Paramilitary Unit, which is part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, to give a speech to the students. #MahsaAmini protests. In response, the schoolgirls remove their hats and chant “Get out, Bashiji”.#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/rYCJRfrp6F
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) October 5, 2022
Basij forces support security forces to quell protests sparked by deaths Mahsa Amini.
Other images shared on social media show a screaming man. “death to a dictator”as another group of girls crosses the street in the northwestern city of Sanandai, and an older woman claps her hands as open schoolgirls scream “freedom, freedom, freedom”at a street protest.
Women, and more recently teenage girls, are at the forefront of #IranProtests2022. In this video, as the schoolgirls wave their hijabs in the air while chanting “freedom, freedom”, an older woman – presumably one of their mothers – joins in the applause. #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/wxQQ2LtYWL
— Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani (@KhosroKalbasi) October 5, 2022
Another video shows a teacher threatening students with expulsion if they don’t cover their heads after a sit-in in the schoolyard.
School teacher threatens students with expulsion if they continue to protest, don’t wear hijabs. Teenage girls have been at the forefront of protests for days now. In this video, they take off their hijabs and chant: “Dear teacher, support [us]”. #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/xZ1Ik9xFxz
— Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani (@KhosroKalbasi) October 5, 2022
In another video, girls without hijabs scream “Death to the dictator.”
Schoolgirls in Sanandaj have taken off their hijabs and are chanting “Death to the dictator”. In the video, you can hear the man join in the chant. #IranProtests2022 it’s the third week. Schools and universities have become hotbeds of protests. #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/5Gp3ph5utk
— Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani (@KhosroKalbasi) October 5, 2022
And another one that was allegedly filmed in the city Karajshows schoolgirls screaming and trying to avoid a man, believed to be a plainclothes security officer, riding a motorcycle on the sidewalk.
The video shows panicked schoolgirls running away as a motorcycle engine roars in the background and a man yells “get out.” Security forces use bicycles to harass and beat protesters. Young schoolgirls are protesting all over Iran. #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/7VBA9HmMNr
— Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani (@KhosroKalbasi) October 4, 2022
The spark that lit the fire
Mahsa Amini, 22, was arrested on Sept. 13 by ethics police because tufts of her hair were sticking out from under a mandatory headscarf.
It is alleged that Amini was beaten and passed out in the pre-trial detention center. It ended three days later. On September 17, the day of her funeral, the first demonstration took place. Then the spark turned into fire.
From the very beginning, young women were at the forefront of the uprising, but only on Monday schoolgirls they began to participate publicly in large numbers.
This happened the day after the security forces laid siege to the famous technological Sharif University in Tehran in response to a protest on campus.
Dozens of students were reportedly beaten, blindfolded and arrested.
Monday Mr. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei he broke the silence and accused them USA as well as Israel“eternal enemies of Iran“, for organizing the riots. He also gave his full support to the security forces, which were accused by human rights organizations of killing dozens of people.
On Tuesday, reports emerged that the death toll from clashes between security forces and anti-government demonstrators in the city’s southeast had risen. Zahedanmade up 83.
Zahedan is the provincial capital Sistan – Balochistan, which borders both Pakistan and Afghanistan and has a predominantly Sunni Muslim population. Authorities said security forces were attacked by armed Balochi separatists, a claim denied by the imam of the city’s largest mosque.
Violence erupted last Friday when protesters surrounded the police station and the police opened fire. Tensions in the city escalated over the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by a police chief in another district of Sistan-Baluchistan.
On Tuesday, state media reported that Tehran’s prosecutor general said the judiciary had launched an investigation into the death. Nika SakaramiA 16-year-old girl who went missing after participating in protests in the capital on 20 September.
Her aunt said that in her last message, Nika told her friend that the police were after her and that her family found her body in the morgue at the detention center 10 days later.
This was reported by sources close to the family. persian bbc that before they could bury Nika, the security forces stole her body and secretly buried her in a village 40 kilometers from her father’s hometown of Khoramabad in the west of the country.
Young schoolgirls smash the photograph of the Supreme Leader and tear it to pieces. At the end, holding hands, they chant: “Do not let fear in, we are one. Women, life, freedom. Tehran, October 4 #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/CucEj5mzta
— Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani (@KhosroKalbasi) October 5, 2022
In Isfahan, three women wave handkerchiefs while holding a banner that reads, “The next one is one of us.”
In Isfahan, three women twirled their scarves as they put up a banner that read, “One of Us Is Next.”
The next person will be the one the Islamic Republic will kill because of her hijab.#مهسا_امینی #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/shXp9kx0sU— 1500tasvir_en (@1500tasvir_en) October 5, 2022
Source: Kathimerini
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