Iran is on fire, fierce repression threatens
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Where His assassination in Baghdad, in January 2020, by order of Donald Trump, Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, the foreign division of the Revolutionary Guards, had acquired in Iran the status of “Prince of Martyrs”. President Ibrahim Raisi raised his image again, during his last speech to the United Nations General Assembly, when he demanded that those behind the deadly strike be brought to justice.
But in his country, the protesters were angry It doesn’t matter. On the contrary, it specifically targets the officer who was one of the heroes of the battles against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. His pictures were set on fire in the streets. Even in Kerman (eastern Iran), his hometown, young demonstrators climbed on scaffolding to attack his image, from the height of a building, they sliced, shredded, shredded, and then set it on fire. An act that amounts to a crime in the eyes of the authorities.
No symbol of the Islamic Republic escapes the wrath of a rebellion entering its seventh day that erupted in Tehran with the beating of a 22-year-old young woman, Mahsa Amini, by the morality police, followed by the killing of three. after few days. To believe that Iran is on fire, at least in the 80 cities occupied by the revolution. This extended from Kurdistan, where Mahsa Amini lived, to Tehran, and then to the whole country.
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