{"id":1766307,"date":"2022-12-07T11:18:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766307"},"modified":"2022-12-07T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:18:37","slug":"sister-of-iranian-supreme-leader-condemns-regimes-crackdown-on-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sister-of-iranian-supreme-leader-condemns-regimes-crackdown-on-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister of Iranian Supreme Leader Condemns Regime\u2019s Crackdown on Protesters"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fsister-of-iranian-supreme-leader-condemns-regimes-crackdown-on-protesters%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=1766307&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)\u2014A sister of Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according to a letter published by her France-based son.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been gripped by unrest since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in police custody on Sept 16., and is facing a three-day general strike movement which started on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Badri Hosseini Khamenei, who lives in Iran and is the sister of Ayatollah Khamenei, criticized the clerical establishment starting from the time of the Islamic Republic&#8217;s late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to her brother&#8217;s rule, the letter, dated &#8220;December 2022&#8221;, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is appropriate now to declare that I oppose my brother&#8217;s actions and I express my sympathy with all mothers mourning the crimes of the Islamic Republic, from the time of Khomeini to the current era of the despotic caliphate of Ali Khamenei,&#8221; she wrote in the letter which was shared on Wednesday on the Twitter account of her son, Mahmoud Moradkhani.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ali Khamenei&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards and mercenaries should lay down their weapons as soon as possible and join the people before it is too late,&#8221; the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>The Revolutionary Guards are Iran&#8217;s elite force which has helped the country&#8217;s establish proxies across the Middle East, and runs a vast business empire.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the elite force shared a statement calling on the judiciary to &#8220;not show mercy to rioters, thugs, and terrorists&#8221;, in a sign that the authorities have no intention of easing their fierce crackdown on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s judiciary spokesman, Masoud Setayeshi, said on Tuesday that five people indicted in the killing of Basij militia member Rouhollah Ajamian were sentenced to death in a verdict which they can still appeal.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Khamenei&#8217;s activist niece Farideh Moradkhani was arrested by authorities after calling on foreign governments to cut all ties with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Videos shared on Twitter by 1500tasvir, an account that has 385,000 followers and focuses on Iran&#8217;s protests, showed closed shops in commercial streets of Tehran, Isfahan, Ilam, Kermanshah, Najafabad, Arak, Babol, and Shiraz where security forces were forcing shopkeepers to open up their stores.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not verify the videos.<\/p>\n<p>President Ebrahim Raisi meanwhile gave a speech at the University of Tehran to mark Student Day.<\/p>\n<p>Some students outside the main reception hall shouted &#8220;dishonorable&#8221; and &#8220;students will die but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI (Reuters)\u2014A sister of Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according to a letter published by her France-based son.<br \/>\nThe post Sister of Iranian Supreme Leader Condemns Regime\u2019s Crackdown on Protesters appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1766310,"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-1766307","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\/1766307","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=1766307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}