The suspicious death of a 16-year-old girl in Tehran is fueling anger among demonstrators who have been opposing Iran's strict dress codes. The deadly protest was triggered by the death of another woman in morality police custody last month.

Anti-hijab protests: Death of another young woman in Iran fuels public backlash

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<p>As protests rage on in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, reports say schoolchildren are now facing the brunt of government displeasure.</p>

<p>The Guardian, quoting social media, tells of Iranian children being arrested from inside school premises.&nbsp;As per the report, security forces are arriving in vans missing their license plates.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Watch |&nbsp;Anti-Hijab Protests: Iran security forces arrest students on school premises</strong></p>

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<p>Iranian authorities have also reportedly shut down schools and higher education institutes in Iranian Kurdistan on sign, which as per Guardian is "a sign that the state remains concerned about dissent after weeks of protests" over Amini's death.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, a Reuters report citing Norway-based Iran Human Rights claimed that since September 17, at least 185 including 19 children have died in the protests.</p>

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<p>"At least 185 people, including at least 19 children, have been killed in the nationwide protests across Iran. The highest number of killings occurred in Sistan and Baluchistan province with half the recorded number," claimed the human rights group.</p>

<p>Pictures and videos shared on social media show children being arrested and others showing youngsters clashing with and/or being chased by armed forces.</p>

<p>One video posted by a Twitter user Mamlekate, who has more than 150,000 followers show school girls being chased by security forces.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="und">بندرعباس یکشنبه ۱۷ مهر 🏁<br />
The state armed police is chasing the valiant school kids in Bandar Abbas, Iran. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IranRevolution?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IranRevolution</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MahsaAmini?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MahsaAmini</a> <a href="https://t.co/xDYhs6518C">pic.twitter.com/xDYhs6518C</a></p>
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<p>Another posted by a widely-followed activist who goes by the username 1500Tasvir shows forces attacking, and arresting youngsters from educational institutions&nbsp;</p>

<p>However, despite the pictures and videos of vans arriving at schools, Mohammad Mahdi Kazem, the Iranian education minister has denied the reports and said that no expulsions from schools had been issued. He claims that the parents of students involved in the protests were being contacted.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Students and schools were attacked by Islamic Republic forces. The same thing happened in many schools across the country. The video was taken at a high school.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D9%85%D9%87%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#مهسا_امینی</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MahsaAmini?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MahsaAmini</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IranRevolution?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IranRevolution</a> <a href="https://t.co/NhI1y6kYJM">pic.twitter.com/NhI1y6kYJM</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">This video was taken yesterday October 8 in Mashhad. The person recording says they are beating a child like this. About twenty armed agents beat a minor in the middle of a street in broad daylight and the <a href="https://twitter.com/UNICEF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNICEF</a> is still silent?<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MahsaAmini?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MahsaAmini</a><br />
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As protests rage on in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, reports say schoolchildren are now facing the brunt of government displeasure. The Guardian, quoting social media, tells of Iranian children being arrested from inside school premises.

As protests rage on in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, reports say schoolchildren are now facing the brunt of government displeasure. The Guardian, quoting social media, tells of Iranian children being arrested from inside school premises. As per the report, security forces are arriving in vans missing their license plates. Watch | Anti-Hijab Protests: Iran security forces arrest students on school premises Iranian authorities have also reportedly shut down schools and higher education institutes in Iranian Kurdistan on sign, which as per Guardian is "a sign that the state remains concerned about dissent after weeks of protests" over Amini's death. Meanwhile, a Reuters report citing Norway-based Iran Human Rights claimed that since September 17, at least 185 including 19 children have died in the protests. Also read | 'It's like a war out there.' Iran's women haven't been this angry in a generation "At least 185 people, including at least 19 children, have been killed in the nationwide protests across Iran. The highest number of killings occurred in Sistan and Baluchistan province with half the recorded number," claimed the human rights group. Pictures and videos shared on social media show children being arrested and others showing youngsters clashing with and/or being chased by armed forces. One video posted by a Twitter user Mamlekate, who has more than 150,000 followers show school girls being chased by security forces. بندرعباس یکشنبه ۱۷ مهر 🏁 The state armed police is chasing the valiant school kids in Bandar Abbas, Iran. #IranRevolution #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/xDYhs6518C — مملکته (@mamlekate) October 9, 2022 × Another posted by a widely-followed activist who goes by the username 1500Tasvir shows forces attacking, and arresting youngsters from educational institutions However, despite the pictures and videos of vans arriving at schools, Mohammad Mahdi Kazem, the Iranian education minister has denied the reports and said that no expulsions from schools had been issued. He claims that the parents of students involved in the protests were being contacted. Students and schools were attacked by Islamic Republic forces. The same thing happened in many schools across the country. The video was taken at a high school.#مهسا_امینی #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/NhI1y6kYJM — 1500tasvir_en (@1500tasvir_en) October 9, 2022 × This video was taken yesterday October 8 in Mashhad. The person recording says they are beating a child like this. About twenty armed agents beat a minor in the middle of a street in broad daylight and the @UNICEF is still silent?#MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/3Ootp9Jt57 — 1500tasvir_en (@1500tasvir_en) October 9, 2022 × (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Reports claim schoolchildren killed, put behind bars as situation in Iran worsens

Iranian schoolchildren were being arrested inside school premises on Sunday by security forces arriving in vans without licence plates as protests against the regime entered their fourth week.

Anti-Hijab Protests: Iran security forces arrest students on school premises

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{8aceef6b-093a-4573-8b0b-b730071568ff}{61}" paraid="392918758" >The United Kingdom has decided to impose sanctions on Iran’s morality police after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in custody. In the official statement, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth&nbsp;and Development Office (FCDO) said along with the organisation, additional sanctions will also be imposed on its chief, Mohammed Gachi, and the head of its Tehran division, Haj Ahmad Mirzaei.&nbsp;</p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{57551087-c39e-4e8e-afd9-1919cb755339}{229}" paraid="2089664181" >“The UK stands with the people of Iran, who are bravely calling for accountability from their government and for their fundamental human rights to be respected,” said British foreign secretary, James Cleverly.&nbsp;</p>

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<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{57551087-c39e-4e8e-afd9-1919cb755339}{247}" paraid="1554750291" >&nbsp;“These sanctions send a clear message to the Iranian authorities – we will hold you to account for your repression,” he added while explaining the sanctions according to Reuters.&nbsp;</p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{7a3e2b52-b849-4525-bc28-b9cdf5c7e128}{46}" paraid="1919788766" >The announcement came after similar steps were taken by the United States and the European Union. &nbsp;</p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{57551087-c39e-4e8e-afd9-1919cb755339}{223}" paraid="796834916" >Amini was detained by the morality police in Iran after flouting hijab laws and later that day, she was declared dead in the hospital with a post-mortem report showing injuries to her head. Since then, protests have erupted across the country with women taking off and burning their hijabs. &nbsp;</p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{57551087-c39e-4e8e-afd9-1919cb755339}{223}" paraid="796834916" >Also read |&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/blasts-and-gunshots-heard-at-protest-over-mahsa-aminis-death-in-iran-524067">Blasts and gunshots heard at protest over Mahsa Amini's death in Iran</a></p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{ca61408d-ef3f-4623-b74f-8f8d9e0c3a8b}{108}" paraid="1203199347" >The British foreign secretary also said that the students in Iran have come under attack due to the country’s military and made it clear that they will support the ones taking part in the protests.&nbsp;</p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{630739d3-11bb-4254-b1ef-dcc7a7284f8f}{17}" paraid="1305170338" >Additionally, five Iranian officials were handed travel bans for suppressing the 2019 protests. As a result, they will not be able to travel to the UK and all their assets in the country will be frozen.&nbsp;</p>

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The United Kingdom has decided to impose sanctions on Iran’s morality police after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in custody. In the official statement, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said along with the organisation, additional sanctions will also be imposed on its chief, Mohammed Gachi, and the head of its Tehran division, Haj Ahmad Mirzaei.

The United Kingdom has decided to impose sanctions on Iran’s morality police after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in custody. In the official statement, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said along with the organisation, additional sanctions will also be imposed on its chief, Mohammed Gachi, and the head of its Tehran division, Haj Ahmad Mirzaei. “The UK stands with the people of Iran, who are bravely calling for accountability from their government and for their fundamental human rights to be respected,” said British foreign secretary, James Cleverly. Also read | Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig win 2022 Nobel Prize in economics “These sanctions send a clear message to the Iranian authorities – we will hold you to account for your repression,” he added while explaining the sanctions according to Reuters. The announcement came after similar steps were taken by the United States and the European Union. Amini was detained by the morality police in Iran after flouting hijab laws and later that day, she was declared dead in the hospital with a post-mortem report showing injuries to her head. Since then, protests have erupted across the country with women taking off and burning their hijabs. Also read | Blasts and gunshots heard at protest over Mahsa Amini's death in Iran The British foreign secretary also said that the students in Iran have come under attack due to the country’s military and made it clear that they will support the ones taking part in the protests. Additionally, five Iranian officials were handed travel bans for suppressing the 2019 protests. As a result, they will not be able to travel to the UK and all their assets in the country will be frozen.

United Kingdom sanctions Iran's morality police over Mahsa Amini’s death

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{b97ce08a-06c3-4ff5-84d7-c244d76a3ce6}{186}" paraid="463288422" >Explosions and gunshots were heard during a protest over the death of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the Iranian Kurdish city of Sanandaj on Monday. Human rights group Hengaw posted videos on social media which showed smoke rising in the protests along with sounds of rifle fire in the distance.&nbsp;</p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{0f53a294-e175-4acf-bbbd-6db925350c3f}{97}" paraid="738409789" >Protests have erupted all around Iran following Amini’s death who was detained by the morality police for flouting the hijab law. She was travelling to Tehran with her family and later that night, she was declared dead in the hospital with post-mortem reports showing severe traumas to her head.&nbsp;</p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{0f53a294-e175-4acf-bbbd-6db925350c3f}{97}" paraid="738409789" >Also read |&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/russia-ukraine-conflict-live-updates-three-loud-blasts-rock-kyiv-report-523917" hreflang="en">Ukraine war LIVE | At least 10 killed, dozens injured in Russian strikes</a></p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{d92440f9-768d-4d0e-9bc3-ea60994b5703}{245}" paraid="1262956829" >Around 1000 workers at the Bushehr and Damavand petrochemical plants chanted “death to the dictator” and threatened to stop working in the aftermath of the incident. Protests also took place in the Kurdish county of Salas-e Babajani where the governor claimed that “young people” were targeted.&nbsp;</p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{8fd8ee04-9690-41b0-bf73-b532299cddbe}{82}" paraid="1485510363" >Fars news agency reported that Esmail Zarei Kousha, the governor of Iran’s Kurdistan province, said that some unknown groups “plotted to kill young people on the streets” during the planned protests.&nbsp;</p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{140862c8-b5f6-43de-8af2-1146d75e04d2}{126}" paraid="1987348029" >The handling of the protests by the Iranian government has attracted a lot of criticism from different countries as the medical community in Iran continued to ask for the military to show some restraint.&nbsp;</p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{140862c8-b5f6-43de-8af2-1146d75e04d2}{126}" paraid="1987348029" >Also read |&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/ben-bernanke-douglas-diamond-philip-dybvig-win-2022-nobel-prize-in-economics-524002">Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig win 2022 Nobel Prize in economics</a></p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{3682cdeb-c10a-4572-aeb6-1acb572ca8d0}{30}" paraid="1687804303" >In the latest reports, a number of doctors said that protestors have been sustaining major injuries due to their participation. On the other hand, the media reported that 24 security officials were also killed.&nbsp;</p>

<p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{3c87389e-d06d-4eb3-a318-b9e37f78e5a4}{161}" paraid="1543718508" >Shops and public places also remained closed in parts of Tehran due to the ongoing protests.&nbsp;</p>

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Explosions and gunshots were heard during a protest over the death of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the Iranian Kurdish city of Sanandaj on Monday. Human rights group Hengaw posted videos on social media which showed smoke rising in the protests along with sounds of rifle fire in the distance.

Explosions and gunshots were heard during a protest over the death of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the Iranian Kurdish city of Sanandaj on Monday. Human rights group Hengaw posted videos on social media which showed smoke rising in the protests along with sounds of rifle fire in the distance. Protests have erupted all around Iran following Amini’s death who was detained by the morality police for flouting the hijab law. She was travelling to Tehran with her family and later that night, she was declared dead in the hospital with post-mortem reports showing severe traumas to her head. Also read | Ukraine war LIVE | At least 10 killed, dozens injured in Russian strikes Around 1000 workers at the Bushehr and Damavand petrochemical plants chanted “death to the dictator” and threatened to stop working in the aftermath of the incident. Protests also took place in the Kurdish county of Salas-e Babajani where the governor claimed that “young people” were targeted. Fars news agency reported that Esmail Zarei Kousha, the governor of Iran’s Kurdistan province, said that some unknown groups “plotted to kill young people on the streets” during the planned protests. The handling of the protests by the Iranian government has attracted a lot of criticism from different countries as the medical community in Iran continued to ask for the military to show some restraint. Also read | Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig win 2022 Nobel Prize in economics In the latest reports, a number of doctors said that protestors have been sustaining major injuries due to their participation. On the other hand, the media reported that 24 security officials were also killed. Shops and public places also remained closed in parts of Tehran due to the ongoing protests.

Blasts and gunshots heard at protest over Mahsa Amini's death in Iran

The protest which started with the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was taken into custody by Iran's morality police continue to escalate. The demonstrations have entered their fourth week and according to the reports on social media, Iran's school children were reportedly arrested inside the school premises.

Hijab Row: Iran's security forces arrest school children

Protesters in Iran reportedly hacked the country's state-run TV channel and hackers urged viewers to oppose Iranian govt. Mask, Ali Khamenei's image in flames appeared on channel.

Protesters hack Iran's state-run TV channel; hackers urge viewers to oppose Iranian govt

<p>On Monday, the 18th day of Iran’s intense protests against oppressive clerical rule and its numerous failures, schoolgirls with backpacks and black Converse sneakers joined the revolt. They marched down a street in a suburb of Tehran, the capital, waving their school uniform veils in the air. They jeered a male education official off school grounds in the same suburb, chanting the Persian word for lacking honor: “Bisharaf! Bisharaf!” They blocked traffic in the southern city of Shiraz, waving their head scarves in circles. They tore up images of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, hurled the fragments in the air and shrieked with passion, “Death to the dictator!”</p>

<p>The fury and desperation in their chants, and the confident arrival of Iran’s insurgent girls into the dangerous public sphere of protest is exceptional and extraordinary. They are fighting pre-emptively against a future where their bodies will continue to be controlled by the Islamic Republic. Whatever the fate of Iran’s protest movement, now entering its third week, the authorities’ feminist opposition now includes schoolchildren.</p>

<p>The outpouring of anger took the Iranian government off guard when it exploded on Sept. 16 across dozens of cities, in protest of the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, in police custody. Iran’s morality police detained Ms. Amini for wearing “improper hijab,” though her precise violation of the state’s Islamic dress codes was unclear. In video footage of Ms. Amini in detention, her attire is, by Iranian standards of compliance with the rules, uncontroversial.</p>

<p>But her unremarkable appearance is, in fact, the point. A distinguishing feature of Iranian life in recent years has been the selective enforcement of the hijab laws. The pockets of society that have managed to flourish in spite of the economy’s overall decline have lived in relative freedom from such restrictions for years, protected by their wealth, exclusive neighborhoods and regime connections. This partly explains the speed at which protests about Ms. Amini’s death accelerated into a wholesale rejection of the Islamic Republic, its leaders and its management of the country. The gap between the freedoms and opportunities enjoyed by the system’s affiliated elite and those of ordinary Iranians has never been so wide — and never have so many people expressed so much anger about it.</p>

<p>This fundamental repudiation of the system is what makes these protests so different from other restive moments in Iran’s recent past: In 1999, students demonstrated against the closing of a reformist newspaper; in 2009, millions marched against an allegedly rigged presidential election, demanding the ascent of different leaders within the system. Today, many despair of any prospect for change and feel a sense of bleak, collective loss.</p>

<p>The singer Shervin Hajipour summarized that pain in his song “Baraye,” or “For.” The lyrics, sewn together from protesters’ tweets and offering reasons for their protests, often wafts from cars and balconies across Tehran now, especially in the evenings:</p>

<p>For my sister, your sister, our sisters</p>

<p>For the renewal of rusted minds</p>

<p>For embarrassed fathers with empty hands</p>

<p>For our longing for an ordinary life</p>

<p>…</p>

<p>For the students and their future</p>

<p>For this forced paradise</p>

<p>For the bright ones in prisons</p>

<p>…</p>

<p>For woman, life and freedom</p>

<p>Tehran lies at the base of towering snow-dusted mountains and spreads downward through leafy districts lined with old villas and luxury apartment towers, and outward in an ever-growing sprawl of apartment blocks and the concrete, low-slung suburbs where the poor live. Bright lights of malls filled with jewelry stores and patisseries, commercial skyscrapers and an in-construction triple butterfly tower by Zaha Hadid dominate the skyline. A grand, plane-tree-lined boulevard, modeled after the Champs-Élysées, runs from the foothills through the length of the city. Anywhere you stand, your proximity to the mountains determines the quality of the air you breathe, your view of the city and your place in it.</p>

<p>The morality police scarcely venture into north Tehran, into neighborhoods where families of government officials live in apartment towers with saunas and elevator garages for parking. The sons of the regime’s elite race their Maseratis up and down the area’s tree-lined boulevards. Last winter, I saw a woman in chador (full body covering) driving a matte black Bugatti.</p>

<p>For the wealthy women of north Tehran, the right to be free from the hijab is already a de facto reality. They dine in rooftop restaurants on sushi and mezze bareheaded, their new-season Gucci bags dangling on their seats, served by uncovered waitresses. Last summer, even the bare midriff, once a jolting sight, became commonplace. My son, visiting Iran for the first time two summers ago, assumed being able to remove your head scarf in restaurants was an actual law. For the new elite, it might as well be. As one protester put it to me: “Can you imagine the police picking up a girl at one of those places? Her father probably works for a ministry and would deploy the whole squad to the Afghan border.”</p>

<p>Neither do the morality police impose their rules in Lavasan, a small town outside Tehran and now a playground for soccer players, celebrities and the regime-affiliated wealthy. Numerous Instagram accounts dedicated to showing ordinary Iranians how their overlords live — in their chateaus, gated villa compounds and infinity pools, with their scantily clad, unmolested lifestyles — have exposed the chasm between the rulers and the ruled.</p>

<p>Across the rest of Tehran, in public parks and metro stations, on buses and around terminals — the contact points where Iranians from the poorer southern neighborhoods and outlying low-wage suburbs enter the city and approach its privileged north — the roving white Mitsubishi vans of the morality police prowl. They may not patrol daily, but regularly enough to project their coercive authority and instill the fear that they may always be lurking.</p>

<p>What is “proper” hijab, anyway? It is meant to be a scarf over the head worn with a longish tunic, an outfit that conforms to what nowadays is called “modest fashion.” What the morality police enforce has little objective basis. They arbitrarily flex the power of the state, conveying that they can stop you whenever they want on the pretext that something is wrong on your body. The consequences range from being a nuisance to destroying a life.</p>

<p>When Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-liner, took office last summer, he became president of an Iran where the hijab had receded as a boondoggle in public life. A country where the sidewalk on Enghelab Street in the city center, the street named after the revolution, was plastered with stickers of women with bee-stung lips, advertising lip fillers. The hopeful imagined that if the hard-liners controlled all the branches of government, they would feel less insecure and behave tolerantly. Instead, in July, Mr. Raisi signaled that he intended to intensify enforcement of hijab rules. In the wake of his decision, morality patrols increased, especially on the metro and buses. Numerous women were arrested for infringements of the conservative dress code. Among them was a young writer, Sepideh Rashno, who was detained and later surfaced on state television making what appeared to be a coerced apology for not complying with proper hijab.</p>

<p>I traveled to Tehran in late September, as I do every few months, to visit family. On one of my first evenings back, I went to buy bread in the neighborhood and understood quickly from the darkened streets (every other street lamp was switched off), deserted sidewalks, broken glass and scorched shrubbery that something terribly violent had just occurred. A couple of indiscreet intelligence agents, with the wrong haircuts and awkward shirts, loitered at a newspaper kiosk. A pair of women wearing chadors and scuffed shoes walked too briskly up and down the street. It felt like a film set, with everyone playing their roles, the saboteurs posing as protesters to torch the area under cover of darkness, the actual inhabitants vanished.</p>

<p>One morning, I met Niloofar, a translator and graphic artist (most Iranians work more than one job these days to get by) in her mid-30s who remembered the ferocity of the full-fledged crackdown in 2009. Two days before we met, she had joined the crowds gathering in Sattarkhan, a neighborhood in central Tehran, which had become one of the capital’s most restive areas. She was heartened by the women in head scarves she saw among the protesters, women who choose to wear hijab by choice but had come out to support a movement against its imposition. “It’s no small thing to come out into the street,” she said. “You risk your life, arrest, injury. It’s like a war out there.”</p>

<p>Niloofar saw the decision of these women to oppose the government as critical, a feature that makes this movement, even if smaller by numbers, broader than anything Iran has experienced since 1979. In turn, protesters are careful to avoid insulting religion, mindful that despite society’s steady shift toward secularism, tolerance for individual freedom in belief is at the very core of their demands. “Islam is one thing, the system is another,” Niloofar said. “Maybe this system has damaged people’s piety most of all. And maybe secularism is the answer to our problems. But no one is saying it’s time to say that yet.”</p>

<p>The evening that Niloofar joined the protests in Sattarkhan, a group of protesters set crates and trash bins alight to create a barrier between them and the police, who fired tear-gas grenades. The noxious smoke filled the streets and seeped into nearby homes. At first Niloofar thought the police had hurled a bomb, so loud was the sound of the tear-gas grenade’s explosion. She felt pinned to the pavement and began to suffocate. She stumbled down an alleyway, where two young activists pulled her into a doorway and helped her recover.</p>

<p>As she recovered, she traded rumors with the protesters who’d helped her: that the security forces are employing adolescent boys and recruits from Iraq because their ranks are so divided and unwilling; that intelligence agents loiter in pharmacies to interrogate people who show up at night to buy first-aid supplies, since protesters are being treated at private homes by doctors; that a satellite television channel is broadcasting instruction on how to make Molotov cocktails. They all agreed that turnout at a rally organized by counterprotesters earlier in the week as a show of support for the government’s crackdown against the protesters, whom the pro-government activists had depicted as Quran-burning thugs, was a flop.</p>

<p>Even the police, by some accounts, are divided and exhausted. The police force itself, distinct from the Basij militia and the Revolutionary Guards, is less politically ideological. After dusk on Sept. 27, I watched as policemen across Tehran simply sat down on the sidewalks in a long line of reluctant, exhausted authority. One said he hadn’t slept for four nights and when he went home, he got an earful from his mother: Don’t you dare beat other people’s children. He didn’t want to, anyway. The policemen have sisters, lovers and friends who are on the other side of these clashes in person. For the first time in its history, the Iranian state is staring a challenge in the face, knowing many of its forces’ sympathies lie with the people.</p>

<p>The anger against the state has also been manifesting in a disturbing manner: In Tehran, there has been in recent months street harassment of women in the black chador, the long enveloping shroud worn either out of religious belief or as a sign of loyalty to the system. I heard of several recent instances of women who have had their chadors ripped off, and been hissed at and spat upon. A former senior government official said on television that workers ignore his wife while she tries to do her business at government offices when she wears it. On another evening, the first week of the protests, a relative of mine, along with a young chador-clad woman, were the last two patients at a dentist’s office in an upscale neighborhood in north Tehran. Her cleaning had finished shortly after 7 p.m., but afraid of being harassed by protesters on the way home, she stayed in the clinic until 10 p.m., waiting for a ride from her brother.</p>

<p>For women who lived through the 1979 Islamic revolution, today’s feminist rebellion against the political order evokes memories. My mother-in-law, a historian and retired university professor, reminded me that in the lead-up to the 1979 revolution, women began voluntarily wearing the black chador on university campuses as a sign of their dissent against the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. “The chador was a symbol of the revolution,” she said. “How ironic that now as a sign of protest it should be a rejection of the head scarf.”</p>

<p>One extraordinary form that rejection has taken is young women publicly and ritually cutting their hair at protests, before chanting and riveted crowds. There is something profoundly uneasy about that sight. A few days earlier, in the main square in Kerman, a city about 600 miles from Tehran, a masked young woman sat atop an electrical box and lowered her head to one side, trying to slice off her long hair with shears. It felt like a ritual sacrifice, this self-shearing, in a culture whose poetry has for centuries invoked hair as a metaphor for immemorial beauty, chains of binding love, shrouds of truth. I saw young women in Tehran walking around with their uncovered shorn heads, a beautiful proud wound.</p>

<p>What matters to the protesters beyond the right to dress freely varies by life stage and what discriminatory law or state-enabled patriarchal norm they’re up against. The list of injustices is long: unequal marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance laws; the lack of important protections under new domestic and gender-based violence statutes; unequal access to sports stadiums; employment discrimination; and workplace sexual harassment. I asked a 34-year-old friend who is trying to save up to emigrate to Sweden what mattered most to her. “I’d like to live in a society where when I submit a résumé for a job, I’m not asked to submit a full-length picture of myself and probably expected to sleep with my boss,” she said. To the same question, a 22-year-old told me she wanted to be able to move about in public without any fear or stress.</p>

<p>Since the protests began, the evenings feel as though the city is under some sort of curfew. One evening last week, I walked down a popular street in north Tehran and nearly everything was closed. The security guard at one of the fashionable cafes said the police had ordered them to shut. A couple of smaller places said they’d closed early to give their staff a chance to get home safely. At the juice stands and shopping complexes that were open, nearly all the young women had their head scarves down, as did middle-aged women doing their shopping. What was transfixing, though, was seeing bareheaded women in central parts of the city where such liberties are rarer, on the backs of motorcycles darting down Enghelab Street, at cafes frequented by university students. At an outdoor mall in eastern Tehran, a young woman flounced past a stall selling shawls and head scarves. “Pack up and go, sir. Don’t you know this is all over?” she exclaimed, sweeping her arm past his wares. “Why don’t you buy them and then burn them?” he suggested, smiling.</p>

<p>Early last week, shortly before midnight, the north Tehran neighborhood where my family lives finally displayed some signs of political life. The shouts began from a nearby building, a whole chorus of voices at once, and at first aroused my suspicions. They came from the most aspirational building in the neighborhood, a confection of narrowing white rococo columns, exactly like a wedding cake and ringed with Versailles-inspired topiary, a building one could afford and be inclined to live in only if one very much didn’t have a problem with state patronage.</p>

<p>The doorman darted out into the street and peered up into the darkness, trying to see what floor was demanding death to the country’s leaders. The calls soon picked up and echoed across the hillside, a cacophony of voices young and old, male and female. One sharp and high female voice led the neighborhood into a more varied set of chants about “woman, life and freedom.” I could make out shadowy silhouettes of people alone on rooftops, people on balconies silently watching, gathered in lighted stairwells, together in the fearless darkness.</p>

<p>On Oct. 3, a few days after I left Tehran, the state finally responded to the dissent that was gripping the country. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned the protesters as rioters and accused them of being instigated by the United States and Israel. Local officials report that at least 1,500 people have been arrested. While it’s unlikely the state will formally make any concessions and relax its dress laws, there is much precedent in Iranian life for tacit change. The authorities may pull the morality police off the streets and permit de facto freedoms in women’s dress without ever acknowledging a change in position, which they would see as showing weakness. Such a move would be in keeping with what is described in Persian as practical politics, or “siyasat-e amali,” as opposed to “siyasat-e elaami,” or declared politics.</p>

<p>Where is it all going? What is this revolt? A feminist revolution for bodily freedom and gender equality; a radical civil rights movement against misogynistic, corrupt policing; or a leaderless, unorganized uprising that demands a fundamental overhaul in relations between citizens and the state? Perhaps it is all of these things at the same time.</p>

<p>What is certain is that morality policing will forever be tainted with the death of Mahsa Amini, viewed as an offense to public honor rather than its defender. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirls have already experienced the power of collective protest — even if the system cracks down with the brute force of which it is so capable, and even if the protests dwindle, and even if no one has a clue as to who or what might be an alternative or how to get there.</p>

<p>“Even if it stops tomorrow, it’s a victory,” Niloofar said. “It has given them a lesson they will always remember.”</p>


On Monday, the 18th day of Iran’s intense protests against oppressive clerical rule and its numerous failures, schoolgirls with backpacks and black Converse sneakers joined the revolt.

On Monday, the 18th day of Iran’s intense protests against oppressive clerical rule and its numerous failures, schoolgirls with backpacks and black Converse sneakers joined the revolt. They marched down a street in a suburb of Tehran, the capital, waving their school uniform veils in the air. They jeered a male education official off school grounds in the same suburb, chanting the Persian word for lacking honor: “Bisharaf! Bisharaf!” They blocked traffic in the southern city of Shiraz, waving their head scarves in circles. They tore up images of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, hurled the fragments in the air and shrieked with passion, “Death to the dictator!” The fury and desperation in their chants, and the confident arrival of Iran’s insurgent girls into the dangerous public sphere of protest is exceptional and extraordinary. They are fighting pre-emptively against a future where their bodies will continue to be controlled by the Islamic Republic. Whatever the fate of Iran’s protest movement, now entering its third week, the authorities’ feminist opposition now includes schoolchildren. The outpouring of anger took the Iranian government off guard when it exploded on Sept. 16 across dozens of cities, in protest of the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, in police custody. Iran’s morality police detained Ms. Amini for wearing “improper hijab,” though her precise violation of the state’s Islamic dress codes was unclear. In video footage of Ms. Amini in detention, her attire is, by Iranian standards of compliance with the rules, uncontroversial. But her unremarkable appearance is, in fact, the point. A distinguishing feature of Iranian life in recent years has been the selective enforcement of the hijab laws. The pockets of society that have managed to flourish in spite of the economy’s overall decline have lived in relative freedom from such restrictions for years, protected by their wealth, exclusive neighborhoods and regime connections. This partly explains the speed at which protests about Ms. Amini’s death accelerated into a wholesale rejection of the Islamic Republic, its leaders and its management of the country. The gap between the freedoms and opportunities enjoyed by the system’s affiliated elite and those of ordinary Iranians has never been so wide — and never have so many people expressed so much anger about it. This fundamental repudiation of the system is what makes these protests so different from other restive moments in Iran’s recent past: In 1999, students demonstrated against the closing of a reformist newspaper; in 2009, millions marched against an allegedly rigged presidential election, demanding the ascent of different leaders within the system. Today, many despair of any prospect for change and feel a sense of bleak, collective loss. The singer Shervin Hajipour summarized that pain in his song “Baraye,” or “For.” The lyrics, sewn together from protesters’ tweets and offering reasons for their protests, often wafts from cars and balconies across Tehran now, especially in the evenings: For my sister, your sister, our sisters For the renewal of rusted minds For embarrassed fathers with empty hands For our longing for an ordinary life … For the students and their future For this forced paradise For the bright ones in prisons … For woman, life and freedom Tehran lies at the base of towering snow-dusted mountains and spreads downward through leafy districts lined with old villas and luxury apartment towers, and outward in an ever-growing sprawl of apartment blocks and the concrete, low-slung suburbs where the poor live. Bright lights of malls filled with jewelry stores and patisseries, commercial skyscrapers and an in-construction triple butterfly tower by Zaha Hadid dominate the skyline. A grand, plane-tree-lined boulevard, modeled after the Champs-Élysées, runs from the foothills through the length of the city. Anywhere you stand, your proximity to the mountains determines the quality of the air you breathe, your view of the city and your place in it. The morality police scarcely venture into north Tehran, into neighborhoods where families of government officials live in apartment towers with saunas and elevator garages for parking. The sons of the regime’s elite race their Maseratis up and down the area’s tree-lined boulevards. Last winter, I saw a woman in chador (full body covering) driving a matte black Bugatti. For the wealthy women of north Tehran, the right to be free from the hijab is already a de facto reality. They dine in rooftop restaurants on sushi and mezze bareheaded, their new-season Gucci bags dangling on their seats, served by uncovered waitresses. Last summer, even the bare midriff, once a jolting sight, became commonplace. My son, visiting Iran for the first time two summers ago, assumed being able to remove your head scarf in restaurants was an actual law. For the new elite, it might as well be. As one protester put it to me: “Can you imagine the police picking up a girl at one of those places? Her father probably works for a ministry and would deploy the whole squad to the Afghan border.” Neither do the morality police impose their rules in Lavasan, a small town outside Tehran and now a playground for soccer players, celebrities and the regime-affiliated wealthy. Numerous Instagram accounts dedicated to showing ordinary Iranians how their overlords live — in their chateaus, gated villa compounds and infinity pools, with their scantily clad, unmolested lifestyles — have exposed the chasm between the rulers and the ruled. Across the rest of Tehran, in public parks and metro stations, on buses and around terminals — the contact points where Iranians from the poorer southern neighborhoods and outlying low-wage suburbs enter the city and approach its privileged north — the roving white Mitsubishi vans of the morality police prowl. They may not patrol daily, but regularly enough to project their coercive authority and instill the fear that they may always be lurking. What is “proper” hijab, anyway? It is meant to be a scarf over the head worn with a longish tunic, an outfit that conforms to what nowadays is called “modest fashion.” What the morality police enforce has little objective basis. They arbitrarily flex the power of the state, conveying that they can stop you whenever they want on the pretext that something is wrong on your body. The consequences range from being a nuisance to destroying a life. When Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-liner, took office last summer, he became president of an Iran where the hijab had receded as a boondoggle in public life. A country where the sidewalk on Enghelab Street in the city center, the street named after the revolution, was plastered with stickers of women with bee-stung lips, advertising lip fillers. The hopeful imagined that if the hard-liners controlled all the branches of government, they would feel less insecure and behave tolerantly. Instead, in July, Mr. Raisi signaled that he intended to intensify enforcement of hijab rules. In the wake of his decision, morality patrols increased, especially on the metro and buses. Numerous women were arrested for infringements of the conservative dress code. Among them was a young writer, Sepideh Rashno, who was detained and later surfaced on state television making what appeared to be a coerced apology for not complying with proper hijab. I traveled to Tehran in late September, as I do every few months, to visit family. On one of my first evenings back, I went to buy bread in the neighborhood and understood quickly from the darkened streets (every other street lamp was switched off), deserted sidewalks, broken glass and scorched shrubbery that something terribly violent had just occurred. A couple of indiscreet intelligence agents, with the wrong haircuts and awkward shirts, loitered at a newspaper kiosk. A pair of women wearing chadors and scuffed shoes walked too briskly up and down the street. It felt like a film set, with everyone playing their roles, the saboteurs posing as protesters to torch the area under cover of darkness, the actual inhabitants vanished. One morning, I met Niloofar, a translator and graphic artist (most Iranians work more than one job these days to get by) in her mid-30s who remembered the ferocity of the full-fledged crackdown in 2009. Two days before we met, she had joined the crowds gathering in Sattarkhan, a neighborhood in central Tehran, which had become one of the capital’s most restive areas. She was heartened by the women in head scarves she saw among the protesters, women who choose to wear hijab by choice but had come out to support a movement against its imposition. “It’s no small thing to come out into the street,” she said. “You risk your life, arrest, injury. It’s like a war out there.” Niloofar saw the decision of these women to oppose the government as critical, a feature that makes this movement, even if smaller by numbers, broader than anything Iran has experienced since 1979. In turn, protesters are careful to avoid insulting religion, mindful that despite society’s steady shift toward secularism, tolerance for individual freedom in belief is at the very core of their demands. “Islam is one thing, the system is another,” Niloofar said. “Maybe this system has damaged people’s piety most of all. And maybe secularism is the answer to our problems. But no one is saying it’s time to say that yet.” The evening that Niloofar joined the protests in Sattarkhan, a group of protesters set crates and trash bins alight to create a barrier between them and the police, who fired tear-gas grenades. The noxious smoke filled the streets and seeped into nearby homes. At first Niloofar thought the police had hurled a bomb, so loud was the sound of the tear-gas grenade’s explosion. She felt pinned to the pavement and began to suffocate. She stumbled down an alleyway, where two young activists pulled her into a doorway and helped her recover. As she recovered, she traded rumors with the protesters who’d helped her: that the security forces are employing adolescent boys and recruits from Iraq because their ranks are so divided and unwilling; that intelligence agents loiter in pharmacies to interrogate people who show up at night to buy first-aid supplies, since protesters are being treated at private homes by doctors; that a satellite television channel is broadcasting instruction on how to make Molotov cocktails. They all agreed that turnout at a rally organized by counterprotesters earlier in the week as a show of support for the government’s crackdown against the protesters, whom the pro-government activists had depicted as Quran-burning thugs, was a flop. Even the police, by some accounts, are divided and exhausted. The police force itself, distinct from the Basij militia and the Revolutionary Guards, is less politically ideological. After dusk on Sept. 27, I watched as policemen across Tehran simply sat down on the sidewalks in a long line of reluctant, exhausted authority. One said he hadn’t slept for four nights and when he went home, he got an earful from his mother: Don’t you dare beat other people’s children. He didn’t want to, anyway. The policemen have sisters, lovers and friends who are on the other side of these clashes in person. For the first time in its history, the Iranian state is staring a challenge in the face, knowing many of its forces’ sympathies lie with the people. The anger against the state has also been manifesting in a disturbing manner: In Tehran, there has been in recent months street harassment of women in the black chador, the long enveloping shroud worn either out of religious belief or as a sign of loyalty to the system. I heard of several recent instances of women who have had their chadors ripped off, and been hissed at and spat upon. A former senior government official said on television that workers ignore his wife while she tries to do her business at government offices when she wears it. On another evening, the first week of the protests, a relative of mine, along with a young chador-clad woman, were the last two patients at a dentist’s office in an upscale neighborhood in north Tehran. Her cleaning had finished shortly after 7 p.m., but afraid of being harassed by protesters on the way home, she stayed in the clinic until 10 p.m., waiting for a ride from her brother. For women who lived through the 1979 Islamic revolution, today’s feminist rebellion against the political order evokes memories. My mother-in-law, a historian and retired university professor, reminded me that in the lead-up to the 1979 revolution, women began voluntarily wearing the black chador on university campuses as a sign of their dissent against the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. “The chador was a symbol of the revolution,” she said. “How ironic that now as a sign of protest it should be a rejection of the head scarf.” One extraordinary form that rejection has taken is young women publicly and ritually cutting their hair at protests, before chanting and riveted crowds. There is something profoundly uneasy about that sight. A few days earlier, in the main square in Kerman, a city about 600 miles from Tehran, a masked young woman sat atop an electrical box and lowered her head to one side, trying to slice off her long hair with shears. It felt like a ritual sacrifice, this self-shearing, in a culture whose poetry has for centuries invoked hair as a metaphor for immemorial beauty, chains of binding love, shrouds of truth. I saw young women in Tehran walking around with their uncovered shorn heads, a beautiful proud wound. What matters to the protesters beyond the right to dress freely varies by life stage and what discriminatory law or state-enabled patriarchal norm they’re up against. The list of injustices is long: unequal marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance laws; the lack of important protections under new domestic and gender-based violence statutes; unequal access to sports stadiums; employment discrimination; and workplace sexual harassment. I asked a 34-year-old friend who is trying to save up to emigrate to Sweden what mattered most to her. “I’d like to live in a society where when I submit a résumé for a job, I’m not asked to submit a full-length picture of myself and probably expected to sleep with my boss,” she said. To the same question, a 22-year-old told me she wanted to be able to move about in public without any fear or stress. Since the protests began, the evenings feel as though the city is under some sort of curfew. One evening last week, I walked down a popular street in north Tehran and nearly everything was closed. The security guard at one of the fashionable cafes said the police had ordered them to shut. A couple of smaller places said they’d closed early to give their staff a chance to get home safely. At the juice stands and shopping complexes that were open, nearly all the young women had their head scarves down, as did middle-aged women doing their shopping. What was transfixing, though, was seeing bareheaded women in central parts of the city where such liberties are rarer, on the backs of motorcycles darting down Enghelab Street, at cafes frequented by university students. At an outdoor mall in eastern Tehran, a young woman flounced past a stall selling shawls and head scarves. “Pack up and go, sir. Don’t you know this is all over?” she exclaimed, sweeping her arm past his wares. “Why don’t you buy them and then burn them?” he suggested, smiling. Early last week, shortly before midnight, the north Tehran neighborhood where my family lives finally displayed some signs of political life. The shouts began from a nearby building, a whole chorus of voices at once, and at first aroused my suspicions. They came from the most aspirational building in the neighborhood, a confection of narrowing white rococo columns, exactly like a wedding cake and ringed with Versailles-inspired topiary, a building one could afford and be inclined to live in only if one very much didn’t have a problem with state patronage. The doorman darted out into the street and peered up into the darkness, trying to see what floor was demanding death to the country’s leaders. The calls soon picked up and echoed across the hillside, a cacophony of voices young and old, male and female. One sharp and high female voice led the neighborhood into a more varied set of chants about “woman, life and freedom.” I could make out shadowy silhouettes of people alone on rooftops, people on balconies silently watching, gathered in lighted stairwells, together in the fearless darkness. On Oct. 3, a few days after I left Tehran, the state finally responded to the dissent that was gripping the country. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned the protesters as rioters and accused them of being instigated by the United States and Israel. Local officials report that at least 1,500 people have been arrested. While it’s unlikely the state will formally make any concessions and relax its dress laws, there is much precedent in Iranian life for tacit change. The authorities may pull the morality police off the streets and permit de facto freedoms in women’s dress without ever acknowledging a change in position, which they would see as showing weakness. Such a move would be in keeping with what is described in Persian as practical politics, or “siyasat-e amali,” as opposed to “siyasat-e elaami,” or declared politics. Where is it all going? What is this revolt? A feminist revolution for bodily freedom and gender equality; a radical civil rights movement against misogynistic, corrupt policing; or a leaderless, unorganized uprising that demands a fundamental overhaul in relations between citizens and the state? Perhaps it is all of these things at the same time. What is certain is that morality policing will forever be tainted with the death of Mahsa Amini, viewed as an offense to public honor rather than its defender. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirls have already experienced the power of collective protest — even if the system cracks down with the brute force of which it is so capable, and even if the protests dwindle, and even if no one has a clue as to who or what might be an alternative or how to get there. “Even if it stops tomorrow, it’s a victory,” Niloofar said. “It has given them a lesson they will always remember.”

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<p>Sarina Esmailzadeh, a 16-year-old Iranian teen, was reportedly killed by security forces in Iran amid escalating tensions across the nation due to mass protests over Mahsa Amini's custodial death.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The reports of the death of another teen sparked outrage. Meanwhile, the Iranian judiciary's website, Mizan Online, denied reports that Esmailzadeh was killed by the security forces at a protest last month. The judiciary claimed that she committed suicide.&nbsp;</p>

<p>According to Amnesty International, Sarina was killed when the security forces beat her with batons when she was protesting in Gohardasht in Alborz province on September 23. Reports have mentioned that Sarina used to post vlogs on YouTube and was popular.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Mizan Online said late Thursday that 'hostile' media&nbsp;reported that Sarina had been killed by security forces at a rally&nbsp;in Karaj, the regional capital of Alborz province.</p>

<p>Mizan also reported that Alborz province prosecutor Hossein Fazeli Harikandi said that an 'initial' investigation&nbsp;shows she had 'committed suicide'.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Harikandi added that Esmailzadeh "jumped 20 minutes after midnight on September 24" from "a building situated near her grandmother's house" in the northeast of the city.&nbsp;</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Look at this beautiful teenage girl, full of life, singing with <a href="https://twitter.com/Hozier?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Hozier</a> 's "Take Me to Church". The Islamic Republic killed her in the protests following <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MahsaAmini?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MahsaAmini</a>'s murder. She only wanted to live a free life as a young woman. Say her name: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SarinaEsmailzadeh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SarinaEsmailzadeh</a> <a href="https://t.co/TKKtAwlUB9">pic.twitter.com/TKKtAwlUB9</a></p>
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<p>The prosecutor was quoted as saying: "According to the medicolegal report, the cause of death was a shock caused by the impact. There had not been any riots in the part of Karaj where this incident happened."&nbsp;</p>

<p>This incident is being reported&nbsp;after earlier a 16-year-old Nika Shakarami, who went missing on September 20 after she reportedly headed out to join an anti-hijab protest in Iran, was found dead.&nbsp;</p>

<p>On Nika's death, the judiciary on Wednesday said that her death was not linked to Amini protests. She went missing on September 20 after a protest in the capital.&nbsp;</p>

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Sarina Esmailzadeh, a 16-year-old Iranian teen, was reportedly killed by security forces in Iran amid escalating tensions across the nation due to mass protests over Mahsa Amini's custodial death.

Sarina Esmailzadeh, a 16-year-old Iranian teen, was reportedly killed by security forces in Iran amid escalating tensions across the nation due to mass protests over Mahsa Amini's custodial death. The reports of the death of another teen sparked outrage. Meanwhile, the Iranian judiciary's website, Mizan Online, denied reports that Esmailzadeh was killed by the security forces at a protest last month. The judiciary claimed that she committed suicide. According to Amnesty International, Sarina was killed when the security forces beat her with batons when she was protesting in Gohardasht in Alborz province on September 23. Reports have mentioned that Sarina used to post vlogs on YouTube and was popular. Mizan Online said late Thursday that 'hostile' media reported that Sarina had been killed by security forces at a rally in Karaj, the regional capital of Alborz province. Mizan also reported that Alborz province prosecutor Hossein Fazeli Harikandi said that an 'initial' investigation shows she had 'committed suicide'. Harikandi added that Esmailzadeh "jumped 20 minutes after midnight on September 24" from "a building situated near her grandmother's house" in the northeast of the city. Disclaimer: WION cannot independently verify the authenticity of photos and videos shared on social media. Look at this beautiful teenage girl, full of life, singing with @Hozier 's "Take Me to Church". The Islamic Republic killed her in the protests following #MahsaAmini's murder. She only wanted to live a free life as a young woman. Say her name: #SarinaEsmailzadeh pic.twitter.com/TKKtAwlUB9 — Aghdas Khanoom (@Aghdas_K) October 6, 2022 × Her name was Sarina. She was 16. She recorded this clip 3 months ago. The Islamic Republic murdered her. The security forces severely beat her with batons until she was dead. @Vahid #SarinaEsmaeilzadeh #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/WJYFJltQXQ — Reza Shirkavand (@reza_shkv) October 6, 2022 × The prosecutor was quoted as saying: "According to the medicolegal report, the cause of death was a shock caused by the impact. There had not been any riots in the part of Karaj where this incident happened." This incident is being reported after earlier a 16-year-old Nika Shakarami, who went missing on September 20 after she reportedly headed out to join an anti-hijab protest in Iran, was found dead. On Nika's death, the judiciary on Wednesday said that her death was not linked to Amini protests. She went missing on September 20 after a protest in the capital. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Anti-hijab protest: Iran denies claims that its security forces killed another teenage girl

As per reports, over 150 people have been killed in the protests. However, Iran regime continues to deny responsibility for Amini's death. Schoolgirls are protesting against Iran's leadership.

Iran: Demonstrations enter their fourth week; schoolgirls at the forefront of protests

<p>In the latest,&nbsp;Iran has claimed that Mahsa Amini died of illness rather than beatings in custody. On the Russia-Ukraine war front, Zelensky has urged all nations to act collectively and stop Russia's nuclear threats. Furthermore, an Irish service station has been devastated in a blast that killed three.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Amini, 22, passed away on September 16—three days after going into a coma as a result of being detained by Tehran's morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic's stringent dress regulations for women. She had been accused of breaking the dress code.</p>

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In the latest, Iran has claimed that Mahsa Amini died of illness rather than beatings in custody. On the Russia-Ukraine war front, Zelensky has urged all nations to act collectively and stop Russia's nuclear threats.

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<p>Protests continued in Iran as people braved even bullets and tear gas on Saturday (October 8). The protests that started after the custodial death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini are now also demanding the downfall of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.</p>

<p>Amini was taken into custody on September 13 by Iran's morality police over 'inappropriate attire'. She died in custody three days later.</p>

<p>An Iranian state coroner's report has denied that Mahsa Amini had died due to blows to the head and limbs while in police custody and linked her death to pre-existing medical conditions, state media said on Friday.</p>

<p><strong>Watch | Iran says Mahsa Amini died due to brain tumor surgery</strong></p>

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<p>In nationwide protests that have followed Amini's death, women have removed their veils in defiance of the regime.&nbsp;</p>

<p>After a call for mass demonstrations on Saturday, security forces shot at protesters and used tear gas in the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqez, according to the Iranian human rights group Hengaw.</p>

<p>In Sanandaj, capital of Kurdistan Province in northwest Iran, one man lay dead in his car while a woman screamed "shameless", according to Hengaw.</p>

<p>The Iranian regime has sought to denounce protesters as 'rioters' on number of occasions. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi did the same in his recent address to the nation.</p>

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<p>Speaking at Alzahra University in Tehran, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi recited a poem in which he equated the "rioters" with flies.</p>

<p>"They imagine they can achieve their evil goals in universities. Unbeknownst to them that our students and professors are alert and will not allow the enemy to realise their evil goals," said Raisi, trying to shore up support for Iran's leaders.</p>

<p><em>(With inputs from agencies)</em></p>

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Protests continued in Iran as people braved even bullets and tear gas on Saturday (October 8). The protests that started after the custodial death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini are now also demanding the downfall of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Protests continued in Iran as people braved even bullets and tear gas on Saturday (October 8). The protests that started after the custodial death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini are now also demanding the downfall of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Amini was taken into custody on September 13 by Iran's morality police over 'inappropriate attire'. She died in custody three days later. An Iranian state coroner's report has denied that Mahsa Amini had died due to blows to the head and limbs while in police custody and linked her death to pre-existing medical conditions, state media said on Friday. Watch | Iran says Mahsa Amini died due to brain tumor surgery × In nationwide protests that have followed Amini's death, women have removed their veils in defiance of the regime. After a call for mass demonstrations on Saturday, security forces shot at protesters and used tear gas in the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqez, according to the Iranian human rights group Hengaw. In Sanandaj, capital of Kurdistan Province in northwest Iran, one man lay dead in his car while a woman screamed "shameless", according to Hengaw. The Iranian regime has sought to denounce protesters as 'rioters' on number of occasions. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi did the same in his recent address to the nation. Also Read | Iran claims Mahsa Amini died of prior illness, not due to blows on head or body Speaking at Alzahra University in Tehran, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi recited a poem in which he equated the "rioters" with flies. "They imagine they can achieve their evil goals in universities. Unbeknownst to them that our students and professors are alert and will not allow the enemy to realise their evil goals," said Raisi, trying to shore up support for Iran's leaders. (With inputs from agencies) You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here. WATCH WION LIVE HERE ×

Iran: Protesters brave bullets, tear gas as they demand downfall of the regime

According to Amnesty International, a 16-year-old girl Serena Ismail Sadeh was killed when the security forces thrashed her with batons at a protest site. Another 16-year-old teenager, Nika Shakarami, went missing on 20th September was also reportedly tortured and killed by Iran's security forces.

Hijab row | Teen girls killed in clashes with Iran police; outrage over their death: Report

<p>Canada announced on Friday that they will not allow the top leadership of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to enter the country. The decision was taken in relation to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody which led to massive protests in Iran.</p>

<p>The IRGC has been a controversial organisation over the years with western countries often criticising it for carrying out intelligence missions and terrorist campaigns around the world.</p>

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<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his deputy Chrystia Freeland said that Canada are looking to impose more targeted sanctions over the “treatment of women in Iran”. Another reason behind the move was the Ukrainian International Airlines plane which was shot down in January 2020.</p>

<p>According to official data, around 138 people on board had connections with Canada.</p>

<p>"The IRGC is a terrorist organization," said Freeland at a press conference.</p>

<p>The government will be classifying the group as a “terrorist organisation” under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and it will mean that around 10,000 officers of the IRGC will be banned.</p>

<p>Also read |&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/white-house-clarifies-bidens-armageddon-remark-says-no-indications-russia-preparing-to-use-nukes-523424">White House says no indications that Russia preparing to use nukes</a></p>

<p>"This is the strongest measure we have to go after states and state entities," said Trudeau.</p>

<p>However, the organisation will not be completely blacklisted under the domestic criminal code.</p>

<p>Amina was detained by the country’s morality police for breaking the hijab law and later, she was found dead with injuries on her head. Her death spurned a massive protest around Iran which has already claimed a number of lives and also garnered massive support from around the world.</p>

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Canada announced on Friday that they will not allow the top leadership of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to enter the country. The decision was taken in relation to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody which led to massive protests in Iran.

Canada announced on Friday that they will not allow the top leadership of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to enter the country. The decision was taken in relation to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody which led to massive protests in Iran. The IRGC has been a controversial organisation over the years with western countries often criticising it for carrying out intelligence missions and terrorist campaigns around the world. Also read | Ukraine has recaptured around 2500 km of land, says Volodymyr Zelensky Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his deputy Chrystia Freeland said that Canada are looking to impose more targeted sanctions over the “treatment of women in Iran”. Another reason behind the move was the Ukrainian International Airlines plane which was shot down in January 2020. According to official data, around 138 people on board had connections with Canada. "The IRGC is a terrorist organization," said Freeland at a press conference. The government will be classifying the group as a “terrorist organisation” under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and it will mean that around 10,000 officers of the IRGC will be banned. Also read | White House says no indications that Russia preparing to use nukes "This is the strongest measure we have to go after states and state entities," said Trudeau. However, the organisation will not be completely blacklisted under the domestic criminal code. Amina was detained by the country’s morality police for breaking the hijab law and later, she was found dead with injuries on her head. Her death spurned a massive protest around Iran which has already claimed a number of lives and also garnered massive support from around the world.

Canada to deny entry to around 10,000 members of 'murderous' Iran regime

Iran said that an investigation into the death in custody of Mahsa Amini found she lost her life to illness rather than reported beatings, three weeks after she died in custody.

Iran says Mahsa Amini died of illness rather than blows to the head and limbs

It has been three weeks since Mahsa Amini's death. After falling into coma following her arrest in Tehran by the morality police for allegedly breaching Islamic Republic's strict dress code for women. Now, Iran has said that an investigation in the custodial death has been found that she lost her life to illness rather than reported beatings.

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<p>Mahsa Amini, 22, passed away on September 16—three days after going into a coma after being detained by Tehran's morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic's stringent dress regulations for women. She had been accused of breaking the dress code.</p>

<p>As a result of the outrage over her passing, Iran has witnessed a huge wave of protests, the biggest in almost three years.&nbsp;A crackdown on the protest has resulted in the death&nbsp;of dozens of protesters while several others have been arrested.</p>

<p>The women-led demonstrations have persisted for 21 straight nights, despite security forces deploying lethal force.</p>

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<p>A statement released by Iran's forensic organisation on Friday claimed that Mahsa Amini's death was not caused by blows to the head or other important body parts.</p>

<p>The statement further said that Amini, whose first name is Jhina in Kurdish, passed away due to her conditions for which she had underwent a&nbsp;surgery for brain tumour at the age of eight.</p>

<p>One of Amini's cousins who lives in Iraq said&nbsp;that Amini died from "a forceful blow to the head," and her grieving parents have filed a complaint against the officers involved.</p>

<p>Other young women and girls have also been slain during the demonstrations, but according to the rights organisation Amnesty International, Iran has been pressuring their families to make public confessions in order to "absolve themselves of guilt for their murders."</p>

<p>Numerous people have died as a result of the widespread street violence that the Iranian government has labelled 'riots',&nbsp;which prompted Western governments to tighten sanctions against the Iranian government and its security forces.</p>

<p>The potential of arbitrary detention was cited by the French foreign ministry as the reason for its Friday advice to its citizens visiting Iran to "leave the country as soon as possible."</p>

<p><strong>Also read |</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/anti-hijab-protest-iran-denies-claims-that-security-forces-killed-another-another-teenage-girl-523429">Anti-hijab protest: Iran denies claims that security forces killed another another teenage girl</a></p>

<p>More than 10,000 commanders and other top members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards would not be allowed entry into Canada, the country said on Friday, accusing them of committing "heinous" atrocities against the Iranian people.</p>

<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that this was the "strongest measure we have to take after nations and state institutions," noting that it had previously only been used against regimes responsible for genocide or war crimes.</p>

<p><em>(With inputs from agencies)</em></p>

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Mahsa Amini, 22, passed away on September 16—three days after going into a coma after being detained by Tehran's morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic's stringent dress regulations for women.

Mahsa Amini, 22, passed away on September 16—three days after going into a coma after being detained by Tehran's morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic's stringent dress regulations for women. She had been accused of breaking the dress code. As a result of the outrage over her passing, Iran has witnessed a huge wave of protests, the biggest in almost three years. A crackdown on the protest has resulted in the death of dozens of protesters while several others have been arrested. The women-led demonstrations have persisted for 21 straight nights, despite security forces deploying lethal force. Also read | Canada to deny entry to around 10,000 members of 'murderous' Iran regime A statement released by Iran's forensic organisation on Friday claimed that Mahsa Amini's death was not caused by blows to the head or other important body parts. The statement further said that Amini, whose first name is Jhina in Kurdish, passed away due to her conditions for which she had underwent a surgery for brain tumour at the age of eight. One of Amini's cousins who lives in Iraq said that Amini died from "a forceful blow to the head," and her grieving parents have filed a complaint against the officers involved. Other young women and girls have also been slain during the demonstrations, but according to the rights organisation Amnesty International, Iran has been pressuring their families to make public confessions in order to "absolve themselves of guilt for their murders." Numerous people have died as a result of the widespread street violence that the Iranian government has labelled 'riots', which prompted Western governments to tighten sanctions against the Iranian government and its security forces. The potential of arbitrary detention was cited by the French foreign ministry as the reason for its Friday advice to its citizens visiting Iran to "leave the country as soon as possible." Also read | Anti-hijab protest: Iran denies claims that security forces killed another another teenage girl More than 10,000 commanders and other top members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards would not be allowed entry into Canada, the country said on Friday, accusing them of committing "heinous" atrocities against the Iranian people. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that this was the "strongest measure we have to take after nations and state institutions," noting that it had previously only been used against regimes responsible for genocide or war crimes. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

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<p>A 16-year-old Nika Shakarami went missing on September 20 after she reportedly headed out to join an anti-hijab protest in Iran. As per reports, the Iranian teen had told a friend that police were chasing her. She was later found dead.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The mother of the Iranian teen who died after joining protests over Mahsa Amini's death accused the authorities of murdering her, in a video sent Thursday to foreign-based media.</p>

<p>A source close to the family has told BBC Persian that Nika's relatives were forced to make false statements. A state TV report on Wednesday night showed her aunt, Atash, saying, "Nika was killed falling from a building."&nbsp;</p>

<p>Nika's uncle was also seen on TV speaking against the unrest, which has gripped the nation. When her uncle spoke, someone appeared to whisper to him: "Say it, you scumbag!"&nbsp;</p>

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<p>The BBC Persian report mentioned that the source said that these were "forced confessions", which came "after intense interrogations and being threatened that other family members would be killed".&nbsp;</p>

<p>As per the source, Atash and Nika's uncle, Mohsen, were detained by authorities. The arrest happened after Atash posted messages online about her niece's death and spoke to the media.&nbsp;</p>

<p>People in Iran, especially young school girls, are protesting over the custodial death of Amini. The morality police in the nation had imprisoned the 22-year-old for allegedly wearing a headscarf in an "improper" way.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><strong>Nika's mother accuses the state</strong></p>

<p>Nasrin Shakarami, Nika's mother also accused the authorities of threatening her to make a forced confession over her daughter's death. The news agency AFP reported that in a video sent Thursday to foreign-based opposition media, she even accused the authorities of murdering Nika.</p>

<p>Nasrin said a forensic report found that she had been "killed on that date, and due to repeated blunt force trauma to the head."&nbsp;</p>

<p>Nasrin Shakarami said the authorities had tried to call her several times but she has refused to answer. She added: "I saw my daughter's body myself... The back of her head showed she had suffered a very severe blow as her skull had caved in. That's how she was killed."&nbsp;</p>

<p>"But they have called others, my uncles, others, saying that if&nbsp;Nika's mother does not come forward and say the things we want, basically confess to the scenario that we want and have created, then we will do this and that, and threatened me," Nasrin further added.&nbsp;</p>

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A 16-year-old Nika Shakarami went missing on September 20 after she reportedly headed out to join an anti-hijab protest in Iran. As per reports, the Iranian teen had told a friend that police were chasing her.

A 16-year-old Nika Shakarami went missing on September 20 after she reportedly headed out to join an anti-hijab protest in Iran. As per reports, the Iranian teen had told a friend that police were chasing her. She was later found dead. The mother of the Iranian teen who died after joining protests over Mahsa Amini's death accused the authorities of murdering her, in a video sent Thursday to foreign-based media. A source close to the family has told BBC Persian that Nika's relatives were forced to make false statements. A state TV report on Wednesday night showed her aunt, Atash, saying, "Nika was killed falling from a building." Nika's uncle was also seen on TV speaking against the unrest, which has gripped the nation. When her uncle spoke, someone appeared to whisper to him: "Say it, you scumbag!" WATCH | Swedish politician cuts hair during speech in solidarity with Iranian women The BBC Persian report mentioned that the source said that these were "forced confessions", which came "after intense interrogations and being threatened that other family members would be killed". As per the source, Atash and Nika's uncle, Mohsen, were detained by authorities. The arrest happened after Atash posted messages online about her niece's death and spoke to the media. People in Iran, especially young school girls, are protesting over the custodial death of Amini. The morality police in the nation had imprisoned the 22-year-old for allegedly wearing a headscarf in an "improper" way. Disclaimer: WION cannot independently verify the authenticity of photos and videos shared on social media. Forced TV confessions of protestors on Iran's state TV is nothing new especially after the death of #MahsaAmini, but this time the evidence was noticed. In tonight's news broadcast, the shadow of a person can be observed in the background whispering 'say it you piece of dirt'. pic.twitter.com/jqUdUTQ4qw — Siavash Ardalan (@BBCArdalan) October 6, 2022 × WATCH | Iran Hijab Row: Schoolgirls heckle parliamentary speaker, students chant 'get lost Basij' × ALSO READ | Twenty-year-old Indian-origin university student killed in the US, cops suspect roommate Nika's mother accuses the state Nasrin Shakarami, Nika's mother also accused the authorities of threatening her to make a forced confession over her daughter's death. The news agency AFP reported that in a video sent Thursday to foreign-based opposition media, she even accused the authorities of murdering Nika. Nasrin said a forensic report found that she had been "killed on that date, and due to repeated blunt force trauma to the head." Nasrin Shakarami said the authorities had tried to call her several times but she has refused to answer. She added: "I saw my daughter's body myself... The back of her head showed she had suffered a very severe blow as her skull had caved in. That's how she was killed." "But they have called others, my uncles, others, saying that if Nika's mother does not come forward and say the things we want, basically confess to the scenario that we want and have created, then we will do this and that, and threatened me," Nasrin further added. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Anti-hijab protest in Iran: Family forced to lie about Nika Shakarami's death, reveals her mother

<p>Global star Priyanka Chopra Jonas is the latest celebrity to have spoken out in support of Iranian women who have been protesting over the death of Mahsa Amini.&nbsp;<br />
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Mahsa was arrested on September 13 as she was leaving a Tehran metro station with her brother and other relatives. She was arrested for allegedly breaching Iran`s strict rules for women on wearing hijab headscarves and modest clothing. Mahsa was in a coma for three days, then died "of natural causes," as the authorities claimed, but according to activists, the cause of her death was a fatal blow to the head.<br />
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Since then, thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks to protest the death of Mahsa Amini and have called out the government for its conservative rules imposed on women.&nbsp;<br />
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Women around the globe have shown solidarity with Iranian women`s plight in rallies and demonstrations by cutting or shaving their hair in public or while being filmed.&nbsp;<br />
Like many other women, Priyanka Chopra also has extended her support on social media.<br />
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Taking to Instagram, she wrote, "Women in Iran and around the world are standing up and raising their voices, publicly cutting their hair and many other forms of protest for Mahsa Amini, whose young life was taken away so brutally by the Iranian Morality Police for wearing her hijab `improperly`. The voices that speak after ages of forced silence, will rightfully burst like a volcano! And they will not and MUST not be stemmed."<br />
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She added, "I am in awe of your courage and your purpose. It is not easy to risk your life, literally, to challenge the patriarchal establishment and fight for your rights. But, you are courageous women doing this every day regardless of the cost to yourselves."</p>

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<p>Priyanka urged the authorities and people in power to hear the protestors'&nbsp;call and understand their issues.<br />
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"To ensure that this movement will have a lasting effect, we must hear their call, understand the issues and then join in with our collective voices. We must also get everyone who can influence others to join as well. Numbers matter. Add your voice to this critical movement. Stay informed and be vocal, so these voices can no longer be forced to stay silent. I stand with you. Jin, jiyan , azaadi... Women, life, freedom," she added.<br />
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Prior to Priyanka, Elnaaz Norouzi has also shown her support for Iranian women.&nbsp;</p>

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Global star Priyanka Chopra Jonas is the latest celebrity to have spoken out in support of Iranian women who have been protesting over the death of Mahsa Amini. Mahsa was arrested on September 13 as she was leaving a Tehran metro station with her brother and other relatives.

Global star Priyanka Chopra Jonas is the latest celebrity to have spoken out in support of Iranian women who have been protesting over the death of Mahsa Amini. Mahsa was arrested on September 13 as she was leaving a Tehran metro station with her brother and other relatives. She was arrested for allegedly breaching Iran`s strict rules for women on wearing hijab headscarves and modest clothing. Mahsa was in a coma for three days, then died "of natural causes," as the authorities claimed, but according to activists, the cause of her death was a fatal blow to the head. Since then, thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks to protest the death of Mahsa Amini and have called out the government for its conservative rules imposed on women. Women around the globe have shown solidarity with Iranian women`s plight in rallies and demonstrations by cutting or shaving their hair in public or while being filmed. Like many other women, Priyanka Chopra also has extended her support on social media. Taking to Instagram, she wrote, "Women in Iran and around the world are standing up and raising their voices, publicly cutting their hair and many other forms of protest for Mahsa Amini, whose young life was taken away so brutally by the Iranian Morality Police for wearing her hijab `improperly`. The voices that speak after ages of forced silence, will rightfully burst like a volcano! And they will not and MUST not be stemmed." She added, "I am in awe of your courage and your purpose. It is not easy to risk your life, literally, to challenge the patriarchal establishment and fight for your rights. But, you are courageous women doing this every day regardless of the cost to yourselves." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Priyanka (@priyankachopra) × Priyanka urged the authorities and people in power to hear the protestors' call and understand their issues. "To ensure that this movement will have a lasting effect, we must hear their call, understand the issues and then join in with our collective voices. We must also get everyone who can influence others to join as well. Numbers matter. Add your voice to this critical movement. Stay informed and be vocal, so these voices can no longer be forced to stay silent. I stand with you. Jin, jiyan , azaadi... Women, life, freedom," she added. Prior to Priyanka, Elnaaz Norouzi has also shown her support for Iranian women. (With agency inputs)

Priyanka Chopra speaks out in support of Iranian women: I stand with you

<p>The mother of an Iranian teenager has accused the authorities of murdering her daughter during the protests taking place in the country. Nasrin Shahkarami, mother of the 16-year-old Nika, told Radio Farda that her daughter died after joining the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini and later, she was forced by the police to say that it was a suicide and Nika jumped from the roof of a building.</p>

<p>Iran is currently experiencing massive protests over the death of Amini – a 22-year-old who was found dead after being detained by the morality police for breaking the hijab laws. The death of Nika has also become symbolic of the protests as the authorities continue to crack down on dissent.</p>

<p>According to official data, around 1200 people have been arrested in the protests till now and more than 100 people have lost their lives including Nika who was found dead on September 20.</p>

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<p>Nasrin said that the authorities took her body away for almost 10 days before returning it eventually to the family and no proper explanation was provided regarding her death. Even on the official death certificate, her cause of death has been cited as “multiple blows caused by a hard object”.</p>

<p>A number of people from her family has alleged that Nika was thrown from the roof of a building by the authorities, but the police has denied it all. Nika’s aunt and uncle were arrested on Wednesday.</p>

<p>The family fears that they “had been forced to make the confessions and broadcast them”.</p>

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<p>“We expected them to say whatever they wanted to exonerate themselves... and they have in fact implicated themselves,” said Nasrin Shahkarami in her interview.</p>

<p>“I probably don’t need to try that hard to prove they’re lying... my daughter was killed in the protests on the same day that she disappeared.”</p>

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The mother of an Iranian teenager has accused the authorities of murdering her daughter during the protests taking place in the country. Nasrin Shahkarami, mother of the 16-year-old Nika, told Radio Farda that her daughter died after joining the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini and later, she was forced by the police to say that it was a suicide and Nika jumped from the roof of a building.

The mother of an Iranian teenager has accused the authorities of murdering her daughter during the protests taking place in the country. Nasrin Shahkarami, mother of the 16-year-old Nika, told Radio Farda that her daughter died after joining the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini and later, she was forced by the police to say that it was a suicide and Nika jumped from the roof of a building. Iran is currently experiencing massive protests over the death of Amini – a 22-year-old who was found dead after being detained by the morality police for breaking the hijab laws. The death of Nika has also become symbolic of the protests as the authorities continue to crack down on dissent. According to official data, around 1200 people have been arrested in the protests till now and more than 100 people have lost their lives including Nika who was found dead on September 20. Also read | Zaporizhzhia plant is a Ukrainian facility, says head of UN nuclear watchdog Nasrin said that the authorities took her body away for almost 10 days before returning it eventually to the family and no proper explanation was provided regarding her death. Even on the official death certificate, her cause of death has been cited as “multiple blows caused by a hard object”. A number of people from her family has alleged that Nika was thrown from the roof of a building by the authorities, but the police has denied it all. Nika’s aunt and uncle were arrested on Wednesday. The family fears that they “had been forced to make the confessions and broadcast them”. Also read | US judge halts Musk-Twitter lawsuit ahead of possible $44 billion takeover “We expected them to say whatever they wanted to exonerate themselves... and they have in fact implicated themselves,” said Nasrin Shahkarami in her interview. “I probably don’t need to try that hard to prove they’re lying... my daughter was killed in the protests on the same day that she disappeared.”

Mother of dead Iranian schoolgirl Nika Shahkarami accuses authorities of murder

Mahsa Amini has become a household name across Iran. Her death has prompted protests demanding equal rights for women. In an extremely rare show of anger, schoolgirls heckled the Iranian parliamentary speaker.

Iran Hijab Row: Schoolgrils heckle parliamentary speaker, students chant 'get lost Basij'

<p>An Iranian American and former UNICEF official, Baquer Namazi, who has been detained in Tehran for over six&nbsp;years on spying charges has been released. The United States has previously called the charges against him baseless. Notably, he is also one&nbsp;of the four citizens whose freedom was demanded by Washington in the context of the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.&nbsp;</p>

<p>On Wednesday, the Iranian media posted footage of Namazi boarding a plane out of Tehran and said, “Mohammad Baquer Namazi, who had been released from prison a few days ago, left Iran today”, but did not announce where he is going. Later that day, Namazi landed in Muscat and Oman’s government announced his arrival in a tweet, indicating that Iran has allowed him to leave for medical treatment.&nbsp;</p>

<p>On the other hand, the former UNICEF official’s lawyer said that he is released from Iran “after more than 6.5 years of illegal detention”, this includes the time he was in jail as well as the period when he was barred from leaving the country.&nbsp;</p>

<p>“After a short layover, he will be leaving Oman and heading to Abu Dhabi”, said the human rights lawyer representing the Namazi family, Jared Genser. According to reports, the Iranian American will get undergo surgery to clear out “severe blockage of his left internal carotid artery (ICA)” which puts him at a “very high risk” for a stroke.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The US has been pushing Iran to release Namazi, his son and two other Americans, this is amid efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers. Namazi’s son Siamak was also detained by Tehran. In 2016, the former UN official was convicted of “collaboration with a hostile government” and sentenced to 10 years in prison.&nbsp;<br />
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<p>Reportedly, the Iranian authorities released him on medical grounds in 2018 and closed his case in 2020, commuting his sentence to time served. However, barred him from leaving until Saturday, when the UN said that he is allowed to leave on medical grounds. His 51-year-old son was also convicted in 2016 on the same charges and was released from Tehran's Evin prison on Saturday on a one-week renewable furlough but he was barred from leaving the country.&nbsp;</p>

<p>In a statement released by the Namazi family’s lawyer, Babak Namazi, Baquer Namazi's son, expressed gratitude for his father's release from Iran but also sorrow that his brother could not leave the country.&nbsp;</p>

<p>“While getting my father out of Iran is incredibly important, today is also bittersweet. My brother Siamak, as well as Americans Emad (Shargi) and Morad Tahbaz, remain detained in Iran and our nightmare will not be over until our entire family (and) the other Americans are reunited with their families,” the statement read. Meanwhile, Genser added that while today is a good day for the Namazi family, the work is far from over and said that they need Iran and America to reach an agreement which would bring all American hostages, held in Tehran, home.&nbsp;<br />
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<p>Reportedly, the Iranian Americans have often been used as pawns between the two nations, as Iran does not acknowledge their US citizenship. The two countries are now at odds over the 2015 pact which limits Tehran’s nuclear program in return for some relief from sanctions place against them.&nbsp;</p>

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An Iranian American and former UNICEF official, Baquer Namazi, who has been detained in Tehran for over six years on spying charges has been released. The United States has previously called the charges against him baseless.

An Iranian American and former UNICEF official, Baquer Namazi, who has been detained in Tehran for over six years on spying charges has been released. The United States has previously called the charges against him baseless. Notably, he is also one of the four citizens whose freedom was demanded by Washington in the context of the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran. On Wednesday, the Iranian media posted footage of Namazi boarding a plane out of Tehran and said, “Mohammad Baquer Namazi, who had been released from prison a few days ago, left Iran today”, but did not announce where he is going. Later that day, Namazi landed in Muscat and Oman’s government announced his arrival in a tweet, indicating that Iran has allowed him to leave for medical treatment. On the other hand, the former UNICEF official’s lawyer said that he is released from Iran “after more than 6.5 years of illegal detention”, this includes the time he was in jail as well as the period when he was barred from leaving the country. “After a short layover, he will be leaving Oman and heading to Abu Dhabi”, said the human rights lawyer representing the Namazi family, Jared Genser. According to reports, the Iranian American will get undergo surgery to clear out “severe blockage of his left internal carotid artery (ICA)” which puts him at a “very high risk” for a stroke. The US has been pushing Iran to release Namazi, his son and two other Americans, this is amid efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers. Namazi’s son Siamak was also detained by Tehran. In 2016, the former UN official was convicted of “collaboration with a hostile government” and sentenced to 10 years in prison. ALSO READ: Who is Baquer Namazi? The American held in Iran allowed to leave Reportedly, the Iranian authorities released him on medical grounds in 2018 and closed his case in 2020, commuting his sentence to time served. However, barred him from leaving until Saturday, when the UN said that he is allowed to leave on medical grounds. His 51-year-old son was also convicted in 2016 on the same charges and was released from Tehran's Evin prison on Saturday on a one-week renewable furlough but he was barred from leaving the country. In a statement released by the Namazi family’s lawyer, Babak Namazi, Baquer Namazi's son, expressed gratitude for his father's release from Iran but also sorrow that his brother could not leave the country. “While getting my father out of Iran is incredibly important, today is also bittersweet. My brother Siamak, as well as Americans Emad (Shargi) and Morad Tahbaz, remain detained in Iran and our nightmare will not be over until our entire family (and) the other Americans are reunited with their families,” the statement read. Meanwhile, Genser added that while today is a good day for the Namazi family, the work is far from over and said that they need Iran and America to reach an agreement which would bring all American hostages, held in Tehran, home. ALSO READ: Prisoners who could be freed alongside Iran nuclear deal Reportedly, the Iranian Americans have often been used as pawns between the two nations, as Iran does not acknowledge their US citizenship. The two countries are now at odds over the 2015 pact which limits Tehran’s nuclear program in return for some relief from sanctions place against them. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE

Tehran releases Iranian-American Baquer Namazi after over six years of detention

<p>Iranian schoolgirls have joined the nationwide protests over the custodial death of Mahsa Amini, who was imprisoned by the morality police for allegedly wearing a headscarf in an "improper" way. After the&nbsp;death of the 22-year-old, protests sparked across the nation and in other parts of the world.</p>

<p>Now, young schoolgirls have come forward to show their support for Amini by removing their hijabs and chanting slogans. They have staged sporadic rallies in defiance of a crackdown by the security forces in the country that killed scores.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The protest by schoolgirls comes after students of the renowned Sharif University of Technology were confronted by riot police. The students were reportedly cornered in an underground car park of the institution before being hauled&nbsp;away. The videos of university protests went viral on social media platforms.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>The schoolgirls have taken the lead. Some of them have removed their hijabs to show defiance while shouting anti-regime slogans and defacing images of the clerical state's leaders.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"Death to the dictator," a group of bare-headed girls is heard chanting. The comments appeared to be in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.</p>

<p>The group of girls was seen in a video forcing a man, reportedly the principal, out of a school in Karaj, west of Tehran, on Monday. The video has been verified by the news agency AFP.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Another group of girls was heard chanting "Woman, Life, Freedom", as they marched through the Karaj neighborhood of Gohardasht.&nbsp;</p>

<p>In the videos, some of the schoolgirls were also seen leaving classrooms and appearing in flash-mob protests to avoid detection, in other footage shared online.&nbsp;</p>

<p>One group of girls were yelling "Get lost, Basiji", referring to the paramilitary force, at a man standing at a podium in the southern city of Shiraz, in a video shared by the 1500tasvir social media channel.&nbsp;</p>

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Iranian schoolgirls have joined the nationwide protests over the custodial death of Mahsa Amini, who was imprisoned by the morality police for allegedly wearing a headscarf in an "improper" way.

Iranian schoolgirls have joined the nationwide protests over the custodial death of Mahsa Amini, who was imprisoned by the morality police for allegedly wearing a headscarf in an "improper" way. After the death of the 22-year-old, protests sparked across the nation and in other parts of the world. Now, young schoolgirls have come forward to show their support for Amini by removing their hijabs and chanting slogans. They have staged sporadic rallies in defiance of a crackdown by the security forces in the country that killed scores. The protest by schoolgirls comes after students of the renowned Sharif University of Technology were confronted by riot police. The students were reportedly cornered in an underground car park of the institution before being hauled away. The videos of university protests went viral on social media platforms. ALSO READ | Tehran releases Iranian-American Baquer Namazi after over six years of detention The schoolgirls have taken the lead. Some of them have removed their hijabs to show defiance while shouting anti-regime slogans and defacing images of the clerical state's leaders. "Death to the dictator," a group of bare-headed girls is heard chanting. The comments appeared to be in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The group of girls was seen in a video forcing a man, reportedly the principal, out of a school in Karaj, west of Tehran, on Monday. The video has been verified by the news agency AFP. Another group of girls was heard chanting "Woman, Life, Freedom", as they marched through the Karaj neighborhood of Gohardasht. In the videos, some of the schoolgirls were also seen leaving classrooms and appearing in flash-mob protests to avoid detection, in other footage shared online. One group of girls were yelling "Get lost, Basiji", referring to the paramilitary force, at a man standing at a podium in the southern city of Shiraz, in a video shared by the 1500tasvir social media channel. ALSO READ | Iran summons Britain's ambassador as nationwide protests wreak havoc Disclaimer: WION cannot independently verify the authenticity of photos and videos shared on social media. Today in Iran, schoolgirls chant "Woman, Life, Freedom" (Zan, Zendegi, Azadi) #زن_زندگی_آزادی pic.twitter.com/NHgmO2SQ0h — Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour) October 4, 2022 × The girls took over their school and are chanting "death to the dictator"❤️ #Iran pic.twitter.com/s9MX8Dbsll — Sofia Ukraini (@SlavaUk30722777) October 4, 2022 × Iranian schoolgirls take off head coverings and tear pictures of Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic, to chants of "woman, life, freedom" and "death to the dictator" on day 19 of protests in Iran over the death of #MahsaAmini.#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/36vaBoFq94 — Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) October 4, 2022 × WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Iran schoolgirls join protest against Mahsa Amini's death, remove hijabs, chant anti-regime slogans

In Iran, the countries youngest are taking on the mightiest. Schoolgirls are protesting against Iran's leadership, stomping on the photos of the Supreme Leader, and removing their hijab in protest against the regime. Molly Gambhir brings you a report.

Gravitas: Iran's schoolgirls join the protest against the regime

In an extremely rare show of anger in Iran, schoolgirls heckled parliamentary speaker. He was present at the premises to deliver a speech but even before he could start, a group of girls took off their hijab and started chanting 'Get Lost'.

Iran: Schoolgirls remove hijabs, chant 'Get Lost Basij' slogans at parliamentary speaker

<p>Iran summoned the British ambassador for the second time since nationwide protests broke out last month, intensifying claims that the West was involved in the unrest that was started by the death of a young woman named Mahsa Amini while she was in police custody, as per the Iranian media on Wednesday.&nbsp;<br />
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The turmoil, which poses the largest challenge to the country's religious leadership in years with protestors demanding the Islamic Republic's overthrow, has been blamed on Iran by rivals, notably the United States.&nbsp;<br />
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Since Amini, 22, died while being held by morality police after being arrested in Tehran on September 13 for "inappropriate attire," protests have been taking place all throughout Iran.<br />
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On Wednesday, videos circulated on social media depicting high school students in Tehran removing their headscarves and yelling "death to (Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei." The videos could not be independently verified by Reuters.&nbsp;<br />
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Even though many do not think the Shi'ite religious system is close to being overthrown, the government is undertaking a lethal campaign to quell the discontent 43 years after the country's Islamic Revolution.&nbsp;<br />
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According to witnesses who spoke to Reuters, riot police were highly present in various locations on Wednesday, especially in and around colleges, which served as the centre of the protests.</p>

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In response to "interventionist comments" made by the British foreign ministry, the British envoy was once again summoned on Tuesday, according to Iranian official media.&nbsp;<br />
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Without going into further detail, Tasnim news agency quoted a senior foreign ministry source as saying that Britain's "unilateral statements" proved that it had a part in the terrorists' active campaign against the Islamic Republic by using aggressive scenarios.<br />
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Iran summoned the British ambassador for the second time since nationwide protests broke out last month, intensifying claims that the West was involved in the unrest that was started by the death of a young woman named Mahsa Amini while she was in police custody, as per the Iranian media on Wednesday.

Iran summoned the British ambassador for the second time since nationwide protests broke out last month, intensifying claims that the West was involved in the unrest that was started by the death of a young woman named Mahsa Amini while she was in police custody, as per the Iranian media on Wednesday. The turmoil, which poses the largest challenge to the country's religious leadership in years with protestors demanding the Islamic Republic's overthrow, has been blamed on Iran by rivals, notably the United States. Since Amini, 22, died while being held by morality police after being arrested in Tehran on September 13 for "inappropriate attire," protests have been taking place all throughout Iran. On Wednesday, videos circulated on social media depicting high school students in Tehran removing their headscarves and yelling "death to (Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei." The videos could not be independently verified by Reuters. Even though many do not think the Shi'ite religious system is close to being overthrown, the government is undertaking a lethal campaign to quell the discontent 43 years after the country's Islamic Revolution. According to witnesses who spoke to Reuters, riot police were highly present in various locations on Wednesday, especially in and around colleges, which served as the centre of the protests. Also Read: In a protest-hit speech, Truss pledges to steer country through 'stormy days' In response to "interventionist comments" made by the British foreign ministry, the British envoy was once again summoned on Tuesday, according to Iranian official media. Without going into further detail, Tasnim news agency quoted a senior foreign ministry source as saying that Britain's "unilateral statements" proved that it had a part in the terrorists' active campaign against the Islamic Republic by using aggressive scenarios. (with inputs from agencies)

Iran summons Britain's ambassador as nationwide protests wreak havoc

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Gravitas Global Headlines: Joe Biden vows to impose 'further costs' on Iran

US and Canada imposed fresh sanctions on Iran for alleged human rights violations, including the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan who died while in custody of Iran's morality police.

WION Dispatch: Western nations condemn Iran's violent crackdown on protesters

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has given his full backing to security forces - as thousands of Iranians continue with their protests against the government. Will the crackdown against protesters intensify? Priyanka Sharma tells you more.

Gravitas: Khamenei sends a warning to protesters

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