The protesters are showing unparalleled persistence and courage. All free people should hope they prevail.
“Women students tell Iran’s president to ‘get lost’ as unrest rages,” Reuters, October 8, 2022:
DUBAI, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Female students in Tehran chanted “get lost”, according to activists, as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited their university campus on Saturday and condemned protesters enraged by the death of a young woman in custody.
As nationwide demonstrations that have rocked Iran entered a fourth week, Raisi addressed professors and students at Alzahra University in Tehran, reciting a poem that equated “rioters” with flies.
“They imagine they can achieve their evil goals in universities,” state TV reported. “Unbeknownst to them, our students and professors are alert and will not allow the enemy to realise their evil goals.”
A video posted on Twitter by the activist 1500tasvir website showed what it said were women students chanting “Raisi get lost” and “Mullahs get lost” as the president visited their campus.
An Iranian state coroner’s report denied that Mahsa Amini had died due to blows to the head and limbs while in morality police custody and linked her death to pre-existing medical conditions, state media said on Friday….
A university student who was on his way to join protests in Tehran said he was not afraid of being arrested or even killed.
“They can kill us, arrest us but we will not remain silent anymore. Our classmates are in jail. How can we remain silent,” the student, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters….
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
Global support for the protesters at this time is absolutely necessary. This evil mullah regime must be destroyed for good. The ayatollah’s must be held accountable for all the evil they’ve subjected the Iranian to and hanged from the street lamp posts.
PMK says
There have been other protests by the young in Iran but nothing came of them. This story focuses on Tehran, but what about other cities in Iran and what about the more remote areas of the country? Is there an urban-rural divide in Iran? As much as people dislike Islamic rule and want to be free of it, what steps they are willing to take remains to be seen. People in the West treat it as a women’s rights issue and a relic of the ‘patriarchy’, but are not willing to admit that it is a feature of Islam. The shah is not in power and the mullahs won’t be swayed. Global support of the protests won’t be decisive. Are all the people in Iran willing to dispose o the mullahs and the IRGC? Do they value freedom more than Islam? Time will tell.
Keith O says
A lot of good points PMK and as you said only time will tell.
Mark Spahn says
“’… we will not remain silent anymore’, said the student, who asked to remain anonymous.”
So he *is* remaining silent, at least about his name.
James Lincoln says
True, Mark.
But there’s no point in making the bull’s-eye on his back any bigger…
Walter Sieruk says
That vicious malicious deadly Rasis had over a hundred people executed in the short span of time, from January to March, this very year.
This is because Rasis is a sadistic cruel murderous fiend, and a blatant violator of human rights in and despicable vicious ways, Rasis is behind many ruthless abuses of basic rights of human beings.
For example, of the many heinously evils outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls.
As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power, the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths.
These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [1]
This affront against human rights is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
Walter Sieruk says
That vicious murder of Masha Amini ,of which the misogyny filled Islamic tyranny of Iran is completely responsible for and totally guilty of is a strong reflection of the tyrannical controlling deadly and anti-female religion of Islam.
As revealed by a scholar of Islam who revealed in her book “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islam ideology.” Furthermore, the author also exposed that `” Women is Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 171,172.
Walter Sieruk says
That heinously cruel and murderous Islamic tyranny of Iran is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women.
The murder of Mahsa Amini is very sad and tragic and that horrendous evil of her being murdered is because of the oppressive vicious brutal cruel and deadly misogynistic Islamic regime of Iran.
That action of male Muslim who are the officials murdering defenseless, helpless women in cold blood is a heinous and hideous has occurred before and if that murderous Islamic regime isn’t overthrown such wicked killing will continue.
Another example of such callous despicable heartless anti-female evil is when a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend, and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1]
That was a clear-cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
Keith O says
The mullahs in Iran present a fine example of the old statement that ” power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We can only hope the the transitional process from absolute power to imprisonment or death doesn’t have too much collateral damage along the way.