{"id":1649551,"date":"2022-09-20T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649551"},"modified":"2022-09-20T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T19:53:00","slug":"protests-flare-across-iran-after-woman-arrested-for-unsuitable-attire-dies-in-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protests-flare-across-iran-after-woman-arrested-for-unsuitable-attire-dies-in-police-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests Flare Across Iran After Woman Arrested for \u2018Unsuitable Attire\u2019 Dies in Police Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprotests-flare-across-iran-after-woman-arrested-for-unsuitable-attire-dies-in-police-custody%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649551&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>DUBAI (Reuters) -Protests raged for a fourth straight day across Iran on Tuesday and authorities said three people had been killed during unrest over the death of a young woman in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>The death last week of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was arrested by morality police for &#8220;unsuitable attire&#8221; unleashed a flood of simmering anger over numerous issues including rights, security and an economy reeling from international sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>It is some of Iran&#8217;s worst unrest since street clashes last year over water shortages. The Iranian government accuses foreign agents and unspecified terrorists of instigating the violence.<\/p>\n<p>In an apparent effort to defuse tensions, an aide to Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei paid condolences to Amini&#8217;s family, saying that Khamenei was affected and pained by her death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All institutions will take action to defend the rights that were violated,&#8221; Khamenei&#8217;s representative in the Kurdistan province, Abdolreza Pourzahabi, said while visiting Amini&#8217;s family home in Kurdistan province, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I promised to the family of Ms. Amini, I will also follow up the issue of her death until the final result,&#8221; Pourzahabi said.<\/p>\n<p>Amini fell into a coma and died while waiting with other women held by the morality police, who enforce strict rules in the Islamic Republic requiring women to cover their hair and wear loose-fitting clothes in public.<\/p>\n<p>Her father said she had no health problems and that she suffered bruises to her legs in custody and holds the police responsible for her death.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrations broke out in Kurdistan and spread on Monday and Tuesday to several other provinces in northwestern Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Late on Tuesday state media reported &#8220;limited rallies&#8221; in several cities where it said demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans, threw rocks at police vehicles and damaged public property.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media websites on Tuesday purported to show demonstrations in provinces across Iran, including several regions that had so far been untouched by the unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not independently verify those videos.<\/p>\n<p>The deadliest unrest has taken place in the Kurdistan region, where state officials and activist websites have reported at least three people killed.<\/p>\n<p>Kurdish human rights group Hengaw said the three people who died were killed n Monday when security forces opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>The governor of Kurdistan province said the deaths were suspicious and blamed unspecified terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A citizen of (the city of) Divandarreh was killed with a weapon that isn&#8217;t used by the armed forces. Terrorist groups are looking to kill,&#8221; Esmail Zarei Koosha said in comments reported by the semi-official Fars news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran Governor Mohsen Mansouri accused foreign agents of fomenting the violence in the country&#8217;s capital. He said citizens of three foreign countries were arrested during gatherings overnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018AMINI, REST IN PEACE&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The protests, sparked by Amini&#8217;s death, have &#8220;shed light on the groundswell of issues that ordinary Iranians face every day related to security, freedom&#8221;, said Sanam Vakil of the Chatham House think-tank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is an existential challenge to the regime \u2026 because the system in Iran has a monopoly of force, a well-honed security strategy that it is already implementing,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters marched through Tehran&#8217;s Grand Bazaar on Monday chanting &#8220;Mahsa Amini, Rest in Peace&#8221;, according to a video posted by the widely followed 1500tasvir Twitter account, which publishes footage it says it receives from the public.<\/p>\n<p>In one large protest in Tehran, a crowd of demonstrators wearing black shouted, &#8220;Oh the day when we will be armed&#8221;, according to another video posted by 1500tasvir overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters was unable to verify the videos.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters took to the streets elsewhere in Tehran chanting anti-Khamenei slogans and police fired tear gas to disperse them, the semi-official Fars news agency reported in a rare admission by state-affiliated media of the scale of unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Activist social media accounts including 1500tasvir said the demonstrations had spread to multiple areas across northwestern and central Iran such as Tabriz, Arak and Isfahan.<\/p>\n<p>Hengaw said there were protests in 13 cities on Monday and that 250 people had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not independently verify those reports.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Howard Goller)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI (Reuters) -Protests raged for a fourth straight day across Iran on Tuesday and authorities said three people had been killed during unrest over the death of a young woman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}