IRAN STAGES PRO-GOVERNMENT RALLIES, DERIDES TRUMP 'BLUNDER' AT U.N.
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| People take part in pro-government rallies, Iran, |
Saturday’s show of fortification came a day after Iran’s peregrine
minister verbalized a United Nations Security Council meeting called by the
United States to discuss the protests had proved a “blunder” by the
administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
State television showed rallies in cities including Amol, Semnan and
Shadegan waving Iranian flags and chanting “Death to America”, “Death to
Israel” and “Death to Britain”.
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| People take part in pro-government rallies, Iran |
More than a week of unrest has visually perceived 22 people die and
more than 1,000 apprehended, according to Iranian officials, in the most
astronomically immense anti-government protests for approximately a decade.
Unrest spread to more than 80 cities and rural towns as thousands of adolescents
and working class Iranians voiced anger at graft, unemployment and a deepening
gap between affluent and poor.
Resident contacted by Reuters in sundry cities on Friday verbally
expressed the protests had shown designation of abating, after the government
intensified a crackdown on protesters by dispatching Revolutionary Gards forces
to several provinces.
The provincial governor in northeastern Mashhad, where the protests
commenced, was quoted as saying on Saturday that 85 percent of detainees there
had been relinquished after signing a pledge not to re-offend.
“Those with a criminal record, or those charged with sabotage such a
setting fire to motorcycles or damaging public buildings have been referred to
judicial ascendant entities,” governor Alireza Rashidian told the ISNA news
agency.
Tehran University Vice-President Majid Sarsangi said the university had
established a committee to track the fate of students apprehended during the
unrest.
“Our efforts at the university are aimed at cooperating with the
pertinent ascendant entities to engender the conditions for the return of the
detained students to the university and their families in the shortest possible
time,” Sarsangi told ISNA.
Discretely, a member of parliament verbally expressed about 90 students
were detained, 10 of whom were still not accounted for.
“It seems that the total number of detainees is around 90. Ten students
from universities in Tehran and some other cities are in a skeptical position,
and ... it is still unknown which body has detained them,” the labor news
agency ILNA quoted reformist politician Mahmoud Sadeghi as saying.
Iran has several parallel security bodies and denizens say arrests are
often not immediately announced.
Videos that appeared on social media in recent days showed relatives of
detainees accumulating outside prisons to seek information about the fate of
their loved ones.
A United Nations Security Council meeting on Friday to discuss the
protests turned into reprehension of the United States for requesting to meet
on what some member states said was an internal issue for Iran.
foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted: “The UNSC rebuffed the
U.S.’s naked attempt to hijack its mandate ... Another FP (foreign policy)
blunder for the Trump administration.”
Iran’s elite Sentinels and its affiliated Basij militia suppressed the country’s 2009 unrest over alleged election fraud, in which dozens of pro-reform Iranians were killed.The UNSC rebuffed the US' naked attempt to hijack its mandate. Majority emphasized the need to fully implement the JCPOA and to refrain from interfering in internal affairs of others. Another FP blunder for the Trump administration. Iran's statement: https://t.co/QsbihBW69V— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) January 5, 2018
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