{"id":106089,"date":"2022-10-04T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=106089"},"modified":"2022-10-04T07:06:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T12:06:10","slug":"us-assails-iran-for-crackdown-on-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/10\/04\/us-assails-iran-for-crackdown-on-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"US Assails Iran for Crackdown on Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 The White House on Monday assailed Iran\u2019s crackdown on protests over the death of a young woman held in captivity by the country\u2019s morality police for failing to properly cover her hair with a hijab.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re alarmed and appalled by reports of security authorities responding to university students\u2019 peaceful protests with violence and mass arrests,\u201d press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters traveling with President Joe Biden to Puerto Rico, a U.S. island territory hit by Hurricane Fiona last month.<\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre said university students in Iran are \u201crightly enraged\u201d by the death of Mahsa Amini, 22. Jean-Pierre said the arrests of the demonstrators are the type of events that prompt young people in Iran to leave the country \u201cand seek dignity and opportunity elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the widespread protests following the death in police custody of a young woman last month are not the actions of \u201cordinary Iranians\u201d as he accused the United States and Israel of planning the demonstrations.<\/p>\n

The protests, now in their third week, have been met with a crackdown by police and security forces. A tally of government statements compiled by The Associated Press gave a death toll of at least 14 people with 1,500 arrests, while rights groups say at least 130 are dead with thousands arrested.<\/p>\n

Khamenei said the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was a \u201csad incident\u201d and that he was heartbroken.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s morality police arrested Amini in Tehran for allegedly not following the country\u2019s strict dress code and she died in a hospital three days later after falling into a coma.<\/p>\n

The government said she died of a heart attack. Her family rejected that account, saying Amini had no history of heart problems and that she was instead beaten. They called for accountability.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people gathered in several countries Sunday to condemn Iran\u2019s crackdown on protests in that country that began after the death of Amini.<\/p>\n

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Thousands Around Globe March in Support of Iran Protests<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week, \u201cThe only reason she\u2019s not [alive] is because a brutal regime took her life and took her life because of decisions she should be making about what she would wear or not wear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some information for this story came from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 The White House on Monday assailed Iran\u2019s crackdown on protests over the death of a young woman held in captivity by the country\u2019s morality police for failing to properly cover her hair with a hijab. \u201cWe\u2019re alarmed and appalled by reports of security authorities responding to university students\u2019 peaceful protests with violence and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106092,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106089\/revisions\/106092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}