The niece of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini has urged the government to cut ties with Tehran over its suppression of anti-regime protests.
Ayatollah’s niece, Faride Moradhani, called on “the good people of the world” to support the protesters and pressure their governments to distance themselves from Iran.
“I call on conscientious people around the world to stand by our side and ask governments not to respond with empty words and slogans, but to respond with real action and stop doing business with this administration. ,” she said in a video posted by her brother after her arrest. Nov. 23.
Moradhani’s family has long opposed Khomeini, and her arrest brings her closest to life in relation to the Supreme Leader whom he imprisoned. She has been arrested twice in the past for activism.
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Protests against the regime have now continued for three months after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody on suspicion of violating the country’s hijab (headscarf) law.
Ayatollah Khomeini’s niece, Faride Moradkani, spoke out against her uncle and his regime in a video posted online by her brother.
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The Iranian government has responded to the protests with the utmost severity. Security forces have used live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas to quell the demonstrations.
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The country’s foreign ministry said it would not cooperate with the UN fact-finding mission to investigate the government’s response after the Human Rights Council voted to appoint an independent investigator.
Iran protests with video via Foreign Desk
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At least 451 people, including 63 minors, have been killed and another 18,173 detained since the protests began, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency.
Iranian courts last week began handing down death sentences on protesters for crimes such as arson.
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Protesters set fire to a museum dedicated to the regime’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in a very direct act of defiance against the country’s rulers.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
