Iran's supreme leader breaks silence on protests, blames US

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded publicly on Monday to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn what he called “rioting” and accuse the United States and Israel of planning the protests.

The unrest, ignited by the death of a young woman in the custody of Iran’s morality police, is flaring up across the country for a third week despite government efforts to crack down.

On Monday, Iran shuttered its top technology university following an hours-long standoff between students and the police that turned the prestigious institution into the latest flashpoint of protests and ended with hundreds of young people arrested.

Speaking to a cadre of police students in Tehran, Khamenei said he was “deeply heartbroken” by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody, calling it a “tragic incident.” However, he lambasted the protests as a foreign plot to destabilize Iran, echoing authorities’ previous comments.



In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, listens to chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri at a graduation ceremony for a group of armed forces cadets at the police academy in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Khamenei responded publicly on Monday to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn what he called “rioting” and accuse the U.S. and Israel of planning the protests. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)


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[vlyons]

1. Right, it's always somebody else's fault

Got nothing to do with his god-fearing policies about protecting men from lust for sexy women.

[ancianita]

7. Right. Except

my take is that his god-fearing policies are about punishing women because his spiritually superior horny men can't stop lusting after Iranian women for just BEING. Just being comfortable as humans.

None of this is the idea of the US or Israel. It could be, though. One could suppose the two allies could stop their busy days and address Iranian women's unjust treatment, but it's only to serve the long term political purpose of making Iran look as bad on the global stage as it is on its own private stage.

Women should be equal. Everywhere. In bodily autonomy, bodily presentation, clothing, and mobility, and in exerting free will. But because Allah is male and Islam is a male invented religion, its theocracy isn't having that equality crap. And Iranian women know this, but they'll just settle for now with the social chains of inequality of dress removed. And as the heat of climate change increases, that's not too much for bagged women to ask.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. If we had that much power your ass would be gone long time ago Khamenei

[Beastly Boy]

3. And the "Zionist regime", of course.

“This rioting was planned,” he said. “These riots and insecurities were designed by America and the Zionist regime, and their employees.”

Because America and the Zionists are secretly running Iran's "morality police" who arrest and detain young Iranian women and harass them to death! And all the thousands of Iranian protestors are Zionist employees. Everybody knows that!

[Warpy]

4. Typical of a blinkered, pig ignorant patriarch who refuses to hear the voices around him

if they come from women. Women have had enough of being assaulted by government thugs.

[wryter2000]

5. Boy, does he have the wrong country

We're on our way to acting like Iran.

P.S. Hatred shows on his face.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. It's fucking HAIR you stupid brainwashed people. You're killing and cracking down over HAIR.

What a bizarre concept to carry around and suppress people for thousands of years. Your oppression and women wanting to be free (er) is what should be at issue. "Morality Police" should go to Vegas for some immersion training...

[PerceptionManagement]

8. If Iran can't get rid of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran deserves Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

[whistler162]

9. and if he gets a hang nail

U.S. is to blame.