{"id":1715271,"date":"2022-10-28T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715271"},"modified":"2022-10-28T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T19:34:23","slug":"iranian-protesters-call-for-death-of-irans-top-leader-as-demonstrations-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-protesters-call-for-death-of-irans-top-leader-as-demonstrations-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Protesters Call for Death of Iran\u2019s Top Leader as Demonstrations Grow"},"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\">24<\/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%2Firanian-protesters-call-for-death-of-irans-top-leader-as-demonstrations-grow%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=1715271&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--><p>DUBAI (Reuters)\u2014Iranians kept up\u00a0protests\u00a0calling for the toppling of the Islamic Republic on Friday, as activists posted videos of crowds demanding the death of the supreme leader and the widely feared Basij militia he unleashed\u00a0against them.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u00a0has been gripped by\u00a0protests\u00a0since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody last month.<\/p>\n<p>They have turned into a popular revolt by furious\u00a0Iranians from all layers of society, posing one of the boldest challenges to the clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage on social media showed protesters calling for the death of &#8220;dictator&#8221; Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Basij, which has played a major role in the crackdown on demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>Commentary on the video said it was recorded on Friday in the city of Zahedan, close to\u00a0Iran\u2018s southeastern border with Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The activist 1500tasvir Twitter account posted the video showing demonstrators chanting &#8220;Death to Khamenei&#8221;. Another video purported to show a 12-year-old protester who was shot in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters was not able to verify the authenticity of social media videos.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a provincial security council dismissed Zahedan&#8217;s police chief and the head of a police station near where dozens of protesters were killed four weeks ago in the deadliest crackdown since the start of nationwide\u00a0protests.<\/p>\n<p>The council said the families of the victims would be compensated and a legal investigation had been opened that may lead to further measures\u00a0against those who provoked the violence, &#8220;rioters&#8221; and any officials suspected of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>CALL FOR JUSTICE<\/p>\n<p>Zahedan&#8217;s top Sunni cleric in predominantly Shi&#8217;ite\u00a0Iran\u00a0welcomed the move but called for an independent investigation of the killings and said any senior officials behind the crackdown should be brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We demand from the security council and the government that, regardless of how high in the ranks this error and crime reaches, the (guilty) official should be dismissed and brought to trial,&#8221; Molavi Abdolhamid said in a Friday prayers sermon, according to his website.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International has said security forces killed at least 66 people in the violent crackdown on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Fars news agency, seen as close to the Revolutionary Guards, blamed the violence in Zahedan on protesters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A number of rioters were shooting at people and security forces from rooftops during today&#8217;s disturbances\u2026 Unfortunately, a 12-year-old child was shot in the face and killed,&#8221; Fars reported.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial security council has said armed dissidents had provoked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI (Reuters)\u2014Iranians kept up\u00a0protests\u00a0calling for the toppling of the Islamic Republic on Friday, as activists posted videos of crowds demanding the death of the supreme leader and the widely feared Basij militia he unleashed\u00a0against them.<br \/>\nThe post Iranian Protesters Call for Death of Iran\u2019s Top Leader as Demonstrations Grow appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1715274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715271","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=1715271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}