Women students tell Iran’s president to ‘get lost’ as unrest rages

DUBAI, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Feminine college students in Tehran chanted “get misplaced” as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited their college campus on Saturday and condemned protesters enraged by the demise of a younger girl in custody, movies on social media confirmed.

Raisi addressed professors and college students at Alzahra College in Tehran, reciting a poem that equated “rioters” with flies, as nationwide demonstrations entered a fourth week.

“They think about they will obtain their evil objectives in universities,” state TV reported. “Unbeknownst to them, our college students and professors are alert and won’t enable the enemy to grasp their evil objectives.”

A video posted on Twitter by the activist 1500tasvir web site confirmed what it stated have been ladies college students chanting “Raisi get misplaced” and “Mullahs get misplaced” because the president visited their campus. One other social media video confirmed college students chanting: “We do not need a corrupt visitor”, in reference to Raisi.

Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm the movies.

An Iranian state coroner’s report denied that 22-year-old Mahsa Amini had died attributable to blows to the pinnacle and limbs whereas in morality police custody and linked her demise to pre-existing medical situations, state media stated on Friday.

Amini, an Iranian Kurd, was arrested in Tehran on Sept. 13 for carrying “inappropriate apparel”, and died three days later.

Her demise has ignited nationwide demonstrations, marking the most important problem to Iran’s clerical leaders in years.

Ladies have eliminated their veils in defiance of the clerical institution whereas livid crowds known as for the downfall of Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The federal government has described the protests as a plot by Iran’s enemies together with the US, accusing armed dissidents – amongst others – of violence wherein a minimum of 20 members of the safety forces have been reported killed.

Rights teams say greater than 185 individuals have been killed, a whole lot injured and 1000’s arrested by safety forces confronting protests.

After a name for mass demonstrations on Saturday, safety forces shot at protesters and used tear fuel within the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqez, in accordance with the Iranian human rights group Hengaw.

In Sanandaj, capital of the northwestern Kurdistan province, one man lay useless in his automotive whereas a girl screamed “shameless”, in accordance with Hengaw, which stated he had been shot by safety forces after he honked his horn as an indication of protest.

However a senior police official repeated the declare by safety forces that they didn’t use stay bullets and that the person had been killed by “counter-revolutionaries” (armed dissidents), the state information company IRNA reported.

A video shared on social media confirmed a younger girl mendacity unconscious on the bottom after she was apparently shot within the northeastern metropolis of Mashhad. Protesters gathered round her to assist.

The Norway-based group Iran Human Rights stated on its web site that a minimum of 185 individuals, together with a minimum of 19 youngsters, had been killed within the protests. The best variety of killings occurred within the restive Sistan-Baluchistan province with half the recorded deaths, it stated.

State TV confirmed footage of Ayatollah Khamenei throughout its major night information, with the published briefly interrupted in an obvious hack along with his picture surrounded by flames, subsequent to the slogan “Come up and be part of us” and internet addresses of the Edalate Ali hacker group. learn extra

The group final 12 months hacked safety cameras and uncovered mistreatment of prisoners in a jail principally holding political prisoners.

CALL FOR UNITY

After a weekly assembly, President Raisi and Iran’s head of judiciary and parliament speaker known as for unity.

“At the moment, the Iranian society wants the unity of all its strata no matter language, faith and ethnicity to beat the hostility and division unfold by anti-Iranians,” they stated in a press release carried by state media.

A social media video confirmed protesters marching within the northern metropolis of Babol and a number of other posts stated safety forces had surrounded college students demonstrating on a college campus.

Hengaw additionally carried a video of emergency personnel attempting to resuscitate an individual and stated one protester had died after being shot within the stomach by safety forces in Sanandaj. Reuters couldn’t confirm the video.

One of many faculties in Saqez metropolis’s sq. was crammed with ladies chanting “girl, life, freedom”, Hengaw reported.

The extensively adopted 1500tasvir Twitter account additionally reported shootings at protesters within the two northwestern Kurdish cities.

A college scholar who was on his technique to be part of protests in Tehran stated he was not afraid of being arrested and even killed.

“They will kill us, arrest us however we won’t stay silent anymore. Our classmates are in jail. How can we stay silent?” the coed, who requested to stay nameless, instructed Reuters.

State media performed down the protests throughout Tehran, reporting “restricted” demonstrations in dozens of areas. One stated many bazaar merchants had shut their retailers for worry of harm within the unrest, denying there was a strike.

Web watchdog NetBlocks stated the web had been minimize in Sanadaj once more amid protests in Kurdish areas.

Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Writing by Michael Georgy
Enhancing by Ros Russell and Nick Macfie

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