The head of the Revolutionary Guard threatened Iranians to call off the protests, saying “today is the end of the riots.”
The head of the Revolutionary Guard threatened Iranians to call off the protests, saying “today is the end of the riots.”
gunman joe 15 killed at a major Shia holy site Iranian media said on Saturday that deaths had occurred in southern Iran earlier this week. The report comes after Tehran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard issued a new warning Iranians joined the protest Which has shook the country since last month.
Iranian officials have not disclosed details about the attacker, who died in a hospital in the southern city of Shiraz from injuries sustained during his arrest, according to Iran’s semi-official Fars and Tasnim news agencies.
Wednesday’s attack on Shah Cherag in Shiraz, Iran’s second holiest Shiite shrine, was claimed by the militant Islamic State group. Iran’s government has sought to blame the attack on largely peaceful protests in the country, without providing evidence.
The unrest – broke out till September 16 Death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police of the country – Has rocked the Islamic Republic for more than a month. Amini died after being detained for allegedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress code for women.
At the funeral of the victims of the shooting in Shiraz, Revolutionary Guard chief General Hossein Salami called on Iranians to call off the protests. Aya guards and other security forces have as his threat crackdown on demonstrations With ammunition, anti-riot pellets and tear gas.
“Today is the end of the riots. Don’t go on the streets now!” Salami said on Saturday. “We are telling our youth, the minority of you who have been deceived, stop the evil deeds.”
He said in the same harsh voice: “This ominous treason will bring you no happy ending. Don’t waste your future!”
The Iranian government has repeatedly accused foreign powers of carrying out the protests without providing evidence. The protests have become one of the most serious threats to Iran’s ruling clerics since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
protest first focused on state-run hijab, or headscarf, for women, but quickly turned into a call for the downfall of Iran’s theocracy. At least 270 people have been killed and 14,000 arrested in protests in 125 Iranian cities, according to a group of human rights activists in Iran.
On Friday, Iranian security forces opened fire on protesters in the southeastern city of Zahedan, according to activists, killing two people.
Iran’s long-disturbed Sistan and Zahedan in Balochistan province have seen the deadliest violence at the protests so far. Activists estimate that in Zahedan alone, around 100 people have been killed since the September 30 rally, prompting a violent police response.