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Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Iranian students protest in Tehran, heckle presidential spokesman: ‘Death to the dictactor’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePARIS — Iranian students heckle a top official and chant anti-government slogan, videos show, a day after security forces were accused of beating schoolgirls amid a crackdown on protests over Mahsa Amini’s death.
Security forces were seen firing tear gas after massing outside the Shahid Sadr girls vocational school in Tehran yesterday, in the footage shared by activists on social media.
Young women and schoolgirls have been at the forefront of protests sparked by Amini’s death last month, after her arrest for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women.
Despite a crackdown by the security forces that rights groups say has killed at least 122 protesters, young women and men are again seen protesting in online videos from today.
“Death to the dictator” and “Death to the Revolutionary Guards,” women chant as they ride escalators in Tehran metro stations, in videos widely shared on Twitter.
Students heckle presidential spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi as he speaks at Tehran’s Khaje Nasir University, in a video published by the reformist paper Hammihan.
“Spokesman, get lost!” and “We don’t want a corrupt system, we don’t want a murderer,” they shout.
Iran's gov't spokesman Bahadori Jahromi whose Monday speech in a university in Tehran was disrupted by students' slogans, visited the University of Qom, the global epicenter of Shia Islam and an apparently safe base for conservatives today, but faced similar anti-regime slogans. pic.twitter.com/iyhi5QCYBt
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) October 25, 2022
Teachers observed a strike around the country the past two days over the crackdown, and another strike was said to be underway in Amini’s home province of Kurdistan today.
Rights group Amnesty International says the crackdown on the wave of protests has cost the lives of at least 23 children, while Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights said Thursday that at least 27 children have been killed.
Children and teachers are among the thousands arrested in the crackdown, IHR added.
The Times of Israel Community.