Female protesters in Iran shouted down the country's president with chants of 'get lost' as he condemned deadly protests after the death of a woman in police custody.
Video obtained from inside Iran this week show women protesting against Iran’s regime. Courtesy: The Foreign Deskwas greeted with chants of"get lost" from female students while he visited a university and condemned the protests that resulted from the death of a young woman while she was in custody for failing to properly wear a headscarf.
Raisi addressed professors and students at Alzahra University in Tehran, reciting a poem that equated"rioters" with flies, as nationwide demonstrations entered a fourth week in response to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa AminiThe protests erupted Sept. 17, after the burial of Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in the custody of Iran's feared morality police. Amini had been detained for an alleged violation of strict Islamic dress codes for women.
The United States said last month it will sanction Iranian security officials in response to Amini's death. Protesters make fire and block the street during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran. "In response to this and other human rights violations in Iran – including the violent suppression of peaceful protests – the United States is imposing sanctions on Iran’s Morality Police and senior security officials who have engaged in serious human rights abuses, pursuant to Executive Order 13553," Secretary of State"The Morality Police, an element of Iran’s Law Enforcement Forces , arrests women for wearing ‘inappropriate’ hijab and enforces other restrictions on freedom of...
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