Demonstrations in Iran: first reactions of Ayatollah Khamenei after three weeks of silence

Video since the death of Mahsa Amini, September 16, 2022, in the hands of the Police of Manners, the dispute grows in Iran. After a long silence, the supreme guide, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reacted for the first time to what he describes as “riots”.

by (with Reuters)

“These riots and insecurity” which follows are the result of a conspiracy “fomented by America and the Zionist regime” Israeli. From Tehran, the Iranian capital, the Iranian supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reacted for the first time on Monday, October 3, on the death of Mahsa Amini, in the hands of the Police of the Manners, on September 16.

According to Ali Khamenei, the many demonstrations – which left 92 dead in three weeks – which shake Iran are not “linked to the death of a young girl or to the port of the hijab”. According to him, this is a conspiracy facilitated by “Iranian traitors abroad”.

If the Ayatollah admitted his sadness after the death of Mahsa Amini, he said, before an audience of Iranian soldiers, whom the discussion she had caused focused on “independence, position, strengthening and the authority of Islamic Iran “.

/Media reports.