Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei placed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in one state of alert higher than it was during the war with Israel last June: some officials of the Islamic Republic told the Telegraph as the country enters its 14th day of widespread protests.
Khamenei, the sources say, “is in closer contact with the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) than with the army or the police, because he believes that the risk of defections from the IRGC is almost non-existent, while others have defected in the past”.
All demonstrators at the protests spreading across Iran will be accused of being “enemies of God”(“mohareb”), a crime punishable by the death penalty: this was declared by the country’s attorney general, Mohammad Movahedi Azad, as reported by Iranian state media, reported by Sky News.
The charge would apply both to “rioters and terrorists” who damaged property and undermined security, and to those who aided them, Movahedi Azad said.
Meanwhile, the US news agency Human Rights Activists News Agency states that the death toll from protests in Iran has risen to 65 .
Most of the deaths were reported outside Tehran, in the provinces of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Ilam, Kermanshah and Fars. The Hrana stated that they were 2,311 people arrested .
But the toll could be worse: a Tehran doctor told Time magazine, on condition of anonymity, that just six hospitals in the Iranian capital had recorded at least 217 deaths among protesters, “most due to live bullets.”This is what we read on the magazine’s website, also quoted by the Israeli newspaper I24.
The victim count, if confirmed, Time writes, would signal a feared repression , heralded by the regime’s almost total blockade of the country’s Internet and telephone connections since Thursday evening. Also according to the BBC, “hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of injured”.
Three police officers were also killed on Friday evening during clashes in Shiraz, in southern Iran: this was written by the Iranian Tasnim agency, affiliated with the Pasdaran, according to which today there has been “calm”in the country so far. Another 14 people from the security forces, including a prosecutor and several basij – the paramilitary police force – were killed in various parts of the country in Thursday’s riots, it added.
source:nuovoresistenza.org
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