The anger does not subside in Iran. Since the death in disturbing circumstances of Mahsa Aminia 22-year-old young woman, on September 16 in Tehran, thousands of demonstrators take to the streets every day to denounce the repression of the vice police who patrol to check the application of Islamic rules, such as the compulsory wearing of the headscarf for women.
Violent clashes oppose thesecurity forces to protesters in major cities across the country. A report from the NGO Iran Human Rights released on Saturday, September 24 reports at least 54 dead, especially in the north of the country. Iranian authorities put the figure at 41 dead. In the front line of this revolt: Iranian women, who for a week have been removing their veils and cutting their hair to challenge the power in place.
Unbelievable scenes from #Tehran: a woman standing on a car, wearing western clothes, takes off her hijab and waves it in defiance at #Iran‘s religious police.#MahsaAmini #IranProtests2022pic.twitter.com/iFs14IhXl7
—Ahmed Quraishi (@_AhmedQuraishi) September 22, 2022
In Tehran this Friday evening, the revolt of the unveiled women has never borne its name so well. We are 8 days after the death in custody of #MahsaAminiand the protest movement turned into an anti-Islamic Republic uprising. #Iran #IranProtests2022 pic.twitter.com/3GZ5jRr5Qg
— Armin Arefi (@arminarefi) September 23, 2022
The women’s revolt they tell you #Iran #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/Bna6Jrng1y
— Armin Arefi (@arminarefi) September 25, 2022
As a sign of protest, some young Iranian women, their faces completely uncovered, take the risk of posting videos on social networks in which they revisit the Italian revolutionary anthem in Persian. Bella ciao. A symbol shared virally all over the world.
Absolutely stunning ! Bella ciao sung by an Iranian in Persian. These women are impressive… Long live freedom. #Mahsa_Amini #Iran pic.twitter.com/4CwUqtJTeH
— Farid Vahid (@FaridVahiid) September 24, 2022
To show their opposition to religious laws, some demonstrators decided to attack the symbols of the Islamic Republic established in 1979. By unbolting statues or tearing down portraits political figures who introduced these laws across the country more than 40 years ago.
The portraits of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini and his successor as Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, at the entrance of the university of Babol (northern#Iran), are torn this Saturday by the demonstrators, under the applause #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/kikar3EUQW
— Armin Arefi (@arminarefi) September 24, 2022
STRONG IMAGES. In Mashhad, in the northeast of#Irandemonstrators unbolt the statue of Morteza Motahari, one of the theoreticians of the Islamic Republic who established with Ayatollah Khomeini the concept of “velayateh faqi”, the power of religion. #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/pNMitVNHrN
— Armin Arefi (@arminarefi) September 24, 2022
By physically attacking the symbols of the Islamic Republic, the demonstrators defy the prohibitions, block the main arteries of the big cities and do not hesitate to directly confront the police by setting fire to police vehicles, despite fierce repression, like here in Tehran, near Sadeghieh Square.
ویدیوی دریافتی از “صادقیه #تهران، ۱ مهر”#مهسا_امینی #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/ZzYSYg77cv
— Vahid Online (@Vahid) September 23, 2022
‘به آتش کشیده شدن خودروی نیروی انتظامی، پایین‌تر از میدان صادقیه #تهران، ۳۱ شهریور’
ویدیوی دریافتی با شرح: ‘امروز صادقیه پر از مامور بود … ولی مردم با این وجود تونستن یدونه ماشین نیروی انتظامی رو بگیرن و سرنشینانش رو تا خورد زدن خود ماشین هم آتیش زدن”#مهسا_امینی #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/I9vzvNUZ4c
— Vahid Online (@Vahid) September 22, 2022
“تو اون اتوبوس که دارن بهش سنگ می‌زنن مأمور هست”
ویدیوی دریافتی از’#رفسنجان، چهارشنبه ۳۰ شهریور’#مهسا_امینی #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/anHjQuKY4Y
— Vahid Online (@Vahid) September 22, 2022