{"id":107570,"date":"2022-12-17T09:20:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=107570"},"modified":"2022-12-17T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:20:18","slug":"iran-protests-continue-friday-as-unrest-enters-fourth-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/12\/17\/iran-protests-continue-friday-as-unrest-enters-fourth-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Protests Continue Friday as Unrest Enters Fourth Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hundreds of protesters marched Friday in the southeastern Iranian provincial capital, Zahedan, marking three months since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in police custody, sparking nationwide anti-government unrest.<\/p>\n

Videos obtained by VOA’s Persian News Network, PNN, along with similar video posted to social media, show crowds marching and chanting anti-government slogans. PNN reported they also taunted Iranian security forces, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, comparing them to the terrorist group Islamic State.<\/p>\n

In one video, demonstrators packing the streets can be heard chanting, “This nation wants freedom, this nation wants a settlement.”<\/p>\n

The government has responded with a harsh crackdown, leaving hundreds dead and thousands arrested, and leading to international condemnation and sanctions.<\/p>\n

PNN also quoted the Zahedan Sunni Imam Maulvi Abdul Hamid, who criticized the government Friday for not listening to the people as they have protested these past several months.<\/p>\n

Iranian officials have insisted the protests are being driven by agents of the United States and other Western nations.<\/p>\n

Amini died September 16, after being arrested days earlier for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code for women. Since then, Iran has seen waves of protests across the nation.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the United Nations \u2014 in a U.S.-sponsored resolution \u2014 moved to remove Iran from a U.N. women’s rights body, the Commission on the Status of Women. Iran’s foreign ministry dismissed the resolution as “invalid and illegitimate.”<\/p>\n

Some information was provided by the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of protesters marched Friday in the southeastern Iranian provincial capital, Zahedan, marking three months since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in police custody, sparking nationwide anti-government unrest. Videos obtained by VOA’s Persian News Network, PNN, along with similar video posted to social media, show crowds marching and chanting anti-government slogans. PNN reported […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107570","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\/107570","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=107570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107573,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107570\/revisions\/107573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}