Sen. Bob Menendez weighs in on protests in Iran
The NPR, October 12, 2022
KELLY: Does this moment in Iran feel different to you? And I’m asking because we’ve, of course, seen big anti-regime protests in Iran before. I’m thinking, perhaps most notably, of 2009.
MENENDEZ: It does. It feels somewhat like the Green Revolution, but for different reasons. And obviously, women are leading the way in the protests in Iran, which is a powerful force in any society, but certainly a statement in Iranian society based upon the role that the state allows women or not allow women to play in the state. And so this is a powerful statement to the regime in Iran that there is great discontentment. And that discontentment obviously, you know, boiled over with the loss of the life of the young lady. But the reality is it’s been boiling for some time on economics and other freedoms. Read More
Protests hit Iran’s oil and petrochemical sectors amid widespread anti-regime actions
Iranian labor union: ‘This is the beginning of the road, and we will continue our protests together with the entire nation day after day’
Fox News, October 11, 2022
Work stoppages hit the Islamic Republic of Iran’s critical energy sector on Monday in the oil-rich province of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf.
Dramatic video footage circulating on social media showed contract workers in the city of Asalouyeh chanting, “Down with the dictator,” in a reference to Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei, who has not hesitated to order his security forces to mow down peaceful protestors with live ammunition.
“Labor strikes have the potential to cripple the Islamic Republic, particularly in the energy sector. After three weeks of revolution, mass walkouts in the oil, gas and the petrochemical sector pose a serious existential threat to the regime,” Iran expert Alireza Nader told Fox News Digital. Read More
Iran intensifies crackdown on Kurdish areas as protests rage
Reuters, October 13, 2022
DUBAI, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Iranian security forces stepped up their crackdown on Kurdish regions of the country overnight, deploying militia troops, as authorities pursued their deadly suppression of nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody.
Nearly four weeks after Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, was detained in Tehran for “inappropriate attire”, the protests show no sign of abating in a bold challenge to Iran’s clerical rulers, even if the unrest does not seem close to toppling them.
The unrest has underlined pent-up frustrations over freedoms and rights in Iran, with many women joining in. The deaths of several teenaged girls reportedly killed while demonstrating have becoming a rally cry for more protests. Read More
Women rising up after decades of Iran regime’s oppression. They need the world’s support
Fort Worth Star Telegram, October 13, 2022 by Homeira Hesami
A few weeks after it began, the scale and intensity of Iran’s uprising are tangibly diminishing an already weak regime in Tehran.
Women, who for more than four decades bore the brunt of the mullahs’ inequities and misogyny, are braving bullets and demanding a similarly unprecedented response from Western powers. Choosing the path of least resistance, the free world has typically been ambivalent. But courageous actions of women, brutal murders of the innocent and the persistence of Iranian resistance promise to change that calculus.
In mid-September, as embers of anger smoldered below the ashes of oppression in Iran, a group of hard-working Texans who are members of the Iranian-American community, spent a week in New York to protest against the expected appearance of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at the United Nations. This predator actually did address the U.N. — only to badmouth democratic values and make a mockery of the rule of law. Read more
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