TEHRAN — President Ebrahim Raisi stated Tuesday Iran would present “no mercy” in the direction of “hostile” opponents of the Islamic republic, gripped by greater than 100 days of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s demise.
The “riots,” as Tehran usually refers to them, had been triggered by the September 16 demise in custody of Iranian-Kurdish Amini, 22, after her arrest for an alleged breach of the strict costume code for ladies.
Addressing a crowd in Tehran, Raisi accused “hypocrites, monarchists and all anti-revolutionary currents.”
“The embrace of the nation is open to all those who were lured,” stated the ultraconservative president at a funeral procession for unidentified troopers who perished throughout its eight-year conflict within the Nineteen Eighties with neighboring Iraq.
“The embrace of the nation is open to everyone, but we will show no mercy to those who are hostile.”
Iranian officers say lots of of individuals have been killed, together with members of the safety forces, and hundreds have been arrested nationwide.
Foreign-based rights teams have put the demise toll amongst protesters at greater than 450.
Earlier in December, Iran executed two individuals in connection to the protests. The judiciary has stated 9 others have been sentenced to demise, two of whom have been allowed retrials.
Campaigners say a few dozen different defendants have been charged with offenses that would see them obtain the demise penalty.
Iranian officers have accused hostile international powers, together with the United States and a few European international locations, of stoking the unrest.
They intention “to derail the Islamic society from its high goals” by “spreading rumors and fracturing society,” stated Raisi.
But international international locations are “wrong” to assume that may obtain their targets, Raisi argued, calling their strikes miscalculated. — Agence France-Presse
