Iranian Commoners Mobilise In Groups To Put Pressure On Regime
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Sulaiman
- . October 10, 2022
- . Update: November 11, 2022 12:42 am
Iranian public is not giving in to the Iranian regime led violence as the country continues to hold demonstrations one after another, in what political analysts suggest are pressure tactics on the regime.
Recent video grabs have shown oil sector workers joining the demonstrations that have been sparked by Mahsa Amini’s murder and unfortunate death. This has been seen as the biggest movement of social unrest in the country in almost three years. Youth are mostly mobilized over the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ movement, where women have taken to streets, cut their hair and burnt their hijabs, revolting against the moral policing and death of Mahsa Amini.
With the fourth week following, anti-government protests have been seen marked with blasts and gunfire along with students and professionals protesting against the hegemonic governance.
Demonstrators in several cities in the Kurdish-populated west of the country on Sunday night chanted slogans and twirled headscarves, rejecting coercive religious dress codes, according to several videos posted by the opposition media outlet Iran International.
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Iran has been under sanctions for controlling media outreach and internet usage, so much so that the US has gone out of its way to provide the necessary access to the Middle Eastern country.
Authorities offered no immediate explanation about the violence early Monday in Sanandaj, some 400 kilometres west of Tehran. Amini was a Kurdish woman and her death has been particularly felt in Iran’s Kurdish region.
Esmail Zarei Kousha, the governor of Iran’s Kurdistan province, alleged without providing evidence that unknown groups “plotted to kill young people on the streets” on Saturday, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Monday.
Mr Kousha also accused these unnamed groups that day of shooting a young man in the head and killing him — an attack that activists roundly have blamed on Iranian security forces. They say Iranian forces opened fire after the man honked his car horn at them. Honking has become one of the ways activists have been expressing civil disobedience — an action that has seen riot police in other videos smashing the windshields of passing vehicles.
