{"id":3870,"date":"2023-02-11T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:40:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:40:37","slug":"iran-marks-anniversary-of-islamic-revolution-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/diplomatic-world\/iran-marks-anniversary-of-islamic-revolution-amid-protests\/2023\/02\/11\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran marks anniversary of Islamic revolution amid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUBAI,<\/span> United<\/span> Arab<\/span> Emirates<\/span> (AP)<\/span> –<\/span> Iran<\/span> on<\/span> Saturday<\/span> marked<\/span> the<\/span> 44th<\/span> anniversary<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> 1979<\/span> Islamic<\/span> Revolution<\/span> amid<\/span> nationwide<\/span> anti-government<\/span> protests<\/span> and<\/span> rising<\/span> tensions<\/span> with<\/span> the<\/span> West.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Thousands<\/span> of<\/span> Iranians<\/span> marched<\/span> through<\/span> main<\/span> streets<\/span> and<\/span> squares<\/span> decorated<\/span> with<\/span> flags,<\/span> balloons<\/span> and<\/span> placards<\/span> with<\/span> revolutionary<\/span> and<\/span> religious<\/span> slogans.<\/span> The<\/span> military<\/span> displayed<\/span> Emad<\/span> and<\/span> Sejjil<\/span> ballistic<\/span> and<\/span> cruise<\/span> missiles,<\/span> as<\/span> well<\/span> as<\/span> Shahed-136<\/span> and<\/span> Mohajer<\/span> drones.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Protesters<\/span> took<\/span> to<\/span> the<\/span> streets<\/span> in<\/span> September<\/span> after<\/span> her<\/span> 22-year-old<\/span> Mahsa<\/span> Amini,<\/span> an<\/span> Iranian<\/span> Kurdish<\/span> woman<\/span>\u00a0was<\/span> arrested<\/span> by<\/span> the<\/span> country’s<\/span> deputies.<\/span> These<\/span> demonstrations<\/span> initially<\/span> focused<\/span> on<\/span> Iran’s<\/span> obligatory<\/span> headscarf,<\/span> or<\/span> hijab,<\/span> but<\/span> soon<\/span> turned<\/span> into<\/span> a<\/span> call<\/span> for<\/span> a<\/span> new<\/span> revolution.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>In<\/span> a<\/span> speech<\/span> at<\/span> Azadi<\/span> Square<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> capital<\/span> Tehran,<\/span> President<\/span> Ebrahim<\/span> Raisi<\/span> referred<\/span> to<\/span> the<\/span> protests<\/span> as<\/span> a<\/span> project<\/span> by<\/span> Iran’s<\/span> enemies<\/span> to stop\u00a0the<\/span> nation<\/span> from<\/span> continuing<\/span> its<\/span> achievements.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Raisi<\/span> called<\/span> the<\/span> celebration<\/span> \u201cepic\u201d<\/span> and<\/span> a<\/span> show<\/span> of<\/span> \u201cnational<\/span> integrity\u201d<\/span> while<\/span> praising<\/span> post-revolution<\/span> achievements<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> country.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The<\/span> remarks<\/span> prompted<\/span> the<\/span> crowd<\/span> to<\/span> chant<\/span> \u201cDeath<\/span> to<\/span> the<\/span> U.S.\u201d<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Meanwhile,<\/span> Telewebion,<\/span> a<\/span> web<\/span> TV<\/span> service<\/span> affiliated<\/span> with<\/span> Iranian<\/span> state<\/span> TV,<\/span> was<\/span> briefly<\/span> hacked<\/span> during<\/span> Raisi’s<\/span> speech,<\/span> Iranian<\/span> media<\/span> reported.<\/span> The<\/span> khabaronline.ir<\/span> news<\/span> website<\/span> said<\/span> the<\/span> interruption<\/span> lasted<\/span> 19<\/span> seconds<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>\u201cEdalate<\/span> Ali\u201d<\/span> or<\/span> \u201cThe<\/span> Justice<\/span> of<\/span> Ali,\u201d<\/span> hackers<\/span> group<\/span> in<\/span> a<\/span> 44-second<\/span> video<\/span> published<\/span> on<\/span> Twitter<\/span> invited<\/span> people<\/span> to<\/span> take<\/span> part<\/span> in<\/span> nationwide<\/span> protests<\/span> next<\/span> week<\/span> and<\/span> urged<\/span> Iranians<\/span> to<\/span> withdraw<\/span> their<\/span> money<\/span> from<\/span> their<\/span> banks.<\/span> The<\/span> video<\/span> contained<\/span> chants<\/span> such<\/span> as<\/span> “Death<\/span> to<\/span> Khamenei”<\/span> and<\/span> “Death<\/span> to<\/span> the<\/span> Islamic<\/span> Republic”,<\/span> with<\/span> a<\/span> masked<\/span> figure<\/span> reading<\/span> the<\/span> message<\/span> in<\/span> a<\/span> female<\/span> voice.<\/span> The<\/span> group<\/span> had<\/span> previously<\/span> hacked<\/span> the<\/span> infamous<\/span> Evin<\/span> Prison<\/span> and<\/span> other<\/span> government<\/span> facilities.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The<\/span> anniversary<\/span> comes<\/span> two<\/span> years<\/span> after<\/span> he<\/span> officially<\/span> restricted<\/span> celebrations<\/span> to<\/span> vehicles<\/span> in<\/span> Iran<\/span> due<\/span> to<\/span> a<\/span> pandemic<\/span> that<\/span> has<\/span> claimed<\/span> more<\/span> than<\/span> 140,000<\/span> lives.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The<\/span> procession<\/span> in<\/span> Tehran<\/span> started<\/span> from<\/span> several<\/span> points<\/span> on<\/span> Saturday<\/span> and<\/span> gathered<\/span> in<\/span> Azadi<\/span> Square.TV<\/span> showed<\/span> crowds<\/span> in<\/span> many<\/span> cities<\/span> and<\/span> towns,<\/span> and<\/span> hundreds<\/span> of<\/span> thousands<\/span> of<\/span> people<\/span> said<\/span> they<\/span> had<\/span> taken<\/span> part.<\/span> advertisement<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The<\/span> celebration<\/span> was<\/span> a<\/span> show<\/span> of<\/span> strength<\/span> for<\/span> the<\/span> demonstrators.<\/span> State<\/span> television<\/span> has<\/span> described<\/span> the<\/span> demonstrations<\/span> as<\/span> “foreign-backed<\/span> riots”<\/span> rather<\/span> than<\/span> domestic<\/span> grievances<\/span> over<\/span> Amini’s<\/span> death.<\/span> It<\/span> is<\/span> also<\/span> widespread<\/span> for<\/span> arming<\/span> Russia<\/span> with<\/span> drones<\/span> equipped<\/span> with<\/span> ,<\/span> which<\/span> also<\/span> angers<\/span> the<\/span> West.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The<\/span> Iranian<\/span> government<\/span> has<\/span> not<\/span> provided<\/span> information<\/span> on<\/span> the<\/span> total<\/span> number<\/span> of<\/span> deaths<\/span> or<\/span> arrests.<\/span> But<\/span> activists<\/span> abroad<\/span> say<\/span> at<\/span> least<\/span> 528<\/span> people<\/span> have<\/span> been<\/span> killed<\/span> and<\/span> 19,600<\/span> arrested<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> ensuing<\/span> raids.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Iran’s<\/span> state<\/span> media<\/span> last<\/span> week<\/span> acknowledged<\/span> for<\/span> the<\/span> first<\/span> time<\/span> the<\/span> scale<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> crackdown,<\/span> saying<\/span> the<\/span> supreme<\/span> leader<\/span> had<\/span> ordered<\/span> pardons<\/span> or<\/span> commuted<\/span> sentences<\/span> for<\/span> “tens<\/span> of<\/span> thousands”<\/span> of<\/span> people<\/span> imprisoned<\/span> during<\/span> the<\/span> protests.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Ayatollah<\/span> Ali<\/span> Khamenei’s<\/span> order<\/span> is<\/span> part<\/span> of<\/span> an<\/span> annual<\/span> amnesty<\/span> granted<\/span> by<\/span> the<\/span> supreme<\/span> leader<\/span> ahead<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> anniversary,<\/span> and<\/span> authorities<\/span> have<\/span> yet<\/span> to<\/span> reveal<\/span> how<\/span> many<\/span> people<\/span> have<\/span> been<\/span> arrested<\/span> at<\/span> the<\/span> demonstrations.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Referring<\/span> to<\/span> the<\/span> amnesty,<\/span> Raisi<\/span> urged<\/span> those<\/span> “deceived<\/span> by<\/span> the<\/span> enemy”<\/span> to<\/span> “return<\/span> to<\/span> the<\/span> country”<\/span> on<\/span> Saturday,<\/span> promising<\/span> that<\/span> his<\/span> government<\/span> would<\/span> show<\/span> them<\/span> mercy<\/span> as<\/span> well<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iran on Saturday marked the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid nationwide anti-government protests and rising tensions with the West. Thousands of Iranians marched through main streets and squares decorated with flags, balloons and placards with revolutionary and religious slogans. The military displayed Emad and Sejjil ballistic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[24,2450,2480,280,562],"tags":[201,204,558,1064,1065],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IRN.webp","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}