The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the British ambassadors, Simon Shercliff, and the Norwegian ambassador, Sigvald Hauge, after the protests in the country over the death of the young Mahsa Amini, the Efe agency reports this Sunday.
Mahsa Amini, 22, was arrested last Tuesday by the so-called “morality police” in Tehran, the capital of Iran, where she was visiting, for allegedly wearing the veil incorrectly and taken to a police station with the goal of attending “an hour of re-education”.
According to Efe, the British ambassador, Simon Shercliff, was summoned in protest at the spread of news by the UK media about the death in police facilities of the young Mahsa Amini.
“In response to the hostile environment created by the London-based media against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the British ambassador in Tehran was summoned by the director-general for Western Europe to visit the Foreign Office,” Mehr news agency reports. . . .
Iran’s Foreign Ministry also cited the Norwegian ambassador for Parliament Speaker Masud Gharahjani’s “interfering” comments about the protests in Iran using the social network Twitter.
“Internet does not work in Iran. In Iranian cities, young people are in the streets shouting for justice, democracy and freedom. The protesters are facing a desperate regime that is violently repressing the protests,” the ambassador says in one of several posts.
The death of the young Mahasa Amini has unleashed serious riots and mass protests in Iran that have caused at least 50 deaths so far, according to non-governmental organizations.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, twice an Oscar winner, today called on the world to “stand in solidarity” with the protests in Iran over the death of the young Mahsa Amini and greeted the “brave women” of his country.
“I invite all artists, filmmakers, intellectuals, civil rights activists around the world and all who believe in dignity and human rights to stand in solidarity with these brave and powerful men and women of Iran by creating videos, writing or in any otherwise”, appeals the Iranian filmmaker, in a ‘post’ on his Instagram page, to which Lusa had access.
The director paid tribute to the “brave women leading the protests” and said they are “simply demanding fundamental rights that the state has deprived them of for years.”
The filmmaker said most of the women protesting were “very young, 17, 20 years old.”
“I saw the outrage and hope on their faces and in the way they marched through the streets. I deeply respect their fight for freedom and the right to choose their own destiny, despite all the brutality they suffer,” she said.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has ordered an investigation into what happened to young Mahsa Amini.
Mahsa Amini, after being arrested, died three days later in a hospital where she arrived in a coma after suffering a heart attack, which the authorities attributed to health problems, a version rejected by the family.
Since then, protests have mushroomed in at least 20 cities, with thousands of anti-government protesters and security forces clashing in what is now considered the country’s most serious political unrest since 2019.
Source: TSF
