Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi accused his US counterpart Joe Biden on Sunday of “inciting chaos” after supporting the protests that have lasted a month after the death of the young Iranian Kurdish Mahsa Amini.
Since September 16, Iran has been the scene of street demonstrations triggered by the death of the 22-year-old, who was violently beaten and detained in the capital on September 13 by the “moral police”, for having, according to them, she violated the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code for women, leaving part of her hair uncovered, although she wore the obligatory ‘hijab’ (Islamic headscarf).
The young woman was hospitalized in a coma and would die three days later.
Dozens of people were killed in nearly a month of protests, mostly demonstrators but also members of the security forces, and hundreds more were detained, according to Iranian authorities.
On Friday, the US president said he was “on the side of the citizens, the brave women of Iran,” and expressed “astonishment” by the protests.
Women “should be able to wear whatever they want,” said Joe Biden, who stressed that “Iran must end the violence against its own citizens who are simply exercising their basic rights.”
“The words of the American president, who allows himself to incite chaos, terror and the destruction of another country, are reminiscent of the eternal words of the founder of the Islamic Republic [Aiatola Rouhollah Khomeini]who called America the great Satan,” says Ebrahim Raisi, according to a presidential press release.
The Iranian leader believes that “the enemy’s conspiracy must be combated with effective measures to solve people’s problems.”
The Revolutionary Guard, Iran’s ideological army, also accused the West today of fomenting “riots” in several schools, denouncing a “cultural, political and security invasion” in the country.
The protest movement has spread in recent days to several schools across the country, with videos shared online of schoolchildren shouting anti-government slogans and schoolgirls removing their headscarves in protest.
“The riots are the product of think tanks in the US and England and have spread to our classrooms,” said the head of the Revolutionary Guard, General Hossein Salami, quoted by Sepah News, the official website of this division. elite of the Iranian armed forces.
“Today the enemy has opened a new field of cultural, political and security invasion (…) this is the most complex field of war where the enemy has a serious presence,” Salami charged.
The United States announced economic sanctions on October 6 against seven top Iranian officials for their role in suppressing the protests, following a first set of sanctions announced on September 22 against Iranian police and various security officials.
Source: TSF
