In the fourth week of protests in Iran, following the mysterious death of girl Mahsa Amini during her arrest by Iranian “morality” police, the United States renewed its support for the protesters.
U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stated that “the world is watching Iran’s protests and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is calling the protesters flies.”
He added that his country supports the protesters in Iran, noting that Washington will bring to justice those who use violence and try to silence the protesters.
This comes after angry late-night protests resumed on Monday evening when activists circulated a video clip of demonstrators in the western Kurdistan city of Sakez setting fire to roads and chanting “Death to Khamenei.”
Evening protests against the Iranian regime also began in the Nizamabad district of the capital Tehran.
At the same time, petrochemists from the port of Asalueh in the province of Bushehr in southern Iran began a general strike.
At least 1,000 workers at the Bushehr, Damavand and Henkam petrochemical plants in Asaluya refrained from work and gathered outside the facilities, cutting off roads leading to them, in preparation to confront security forces.
It is noteworthy that since the death of 22-year-old Amini on September 16 (2022), three days after she was arrested by the vice police and then transferred to a hospital in Tehran, the demonstrations in the country have not subsided. .
Since then, her death has sparked anger on several issues, including restrictions on personal freedoms and strict rules on women’s clothing, as well as the life and economic crisis faced by Iranians, not to mention the strict rules imposed by the regime and its political structure in general. .
Meanwhile, the authorities resorted to methods of repression and violence, whether it was shutting down the Internet or using live ammunition to disperse protesters.
Political officials also embraced the “betrayal” scenario, calling the protesters alternately traitors, rioters, and “flies” with foreign ties.
