Pro-government protesters in Iran take part in a street march in Tehran, the capital of Iran, on the 23rd (local time), accusing participants of recent anti-government protests as rioters. Tehran | Archyde.com
The U.S. government has said the U.S. is trying to use protests after the death of an Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, in her 20s, after being arrested for not wearing a proper hijab. The confrontation between Iran and the West is intensifying again, with the German government suggesting the possibility of additional sanctions on Iran at the European level.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Khanani said in a statement on the 26th (local time) that “the United States, although unsuccessful, is always working to undermine Iran’s stability and security.” “Leaders of the United States and some European countries are taking advantage of the tragic event by supporting the mobs, ignoring the fact that millions of people supporting Iran’s national operating system are in the squares and streets,” he said on Instagram.
The remarks on the day are interpreted as a reaction to the successive criticisms and sanctions against the Iranian government in Western countries. Earlier, the United States sanctioned high-ranking Iranian officials, including a moral police officer who arrested Amani. “The Iranian government needs to end the systematic persecution of women and allow peaceful protests,” US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln said in a separate statement.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would impose sanctions on those responsible for Amini’s death. “The widespread and disproportionate use of force against nonviolent protesters in the EU and its member states is unjustifiable and unacceptable,” said Joseph Borrell, the European Union’s senior representative for foreign and security policy, in a statement. infringes on it.” Germany’s foreign ministry has summoned the Iranian ambassador in connection with the death of Amini and condemned it. Regarding whether to add sanctions against Iran, he said, “We will consider all alternatives together with other EU member states.”
The Iranian government summoned British and Norwegian ambassadors on the same day to protest the intervention in the protests and hostile media reports.
Anti-government protests in Iran show no signs of abating. In a statement posted on social media by Iran’s leading teachers’ union, it urged teachers and students to take part in nationwide protests on the 27th and 29th, Archyde.com reported. According to Iranian state television, at least 41 people have been killed so far in the process of suppressing the protests that began on the 17th.