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Since the confessions of the Iranian authorities, who finally conceded that they had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian Airlines flight to Tehran, protesters have expressed their disapproval; they do not hesitate to openly question the Iranian leaders.
With our correspondent in Théran, Siavosh Ghazi
Some 2,000 to 3,000 people gathered in Azadi ("Liberty") Square in Tehran on Sunday January 12 with very harsh slogans against the country's highest authorities, and requests for resignation. Protesters protested that the government had not told the truth about the reasons for the Ukrainian plane crash in the early hours.
Torn portraits
Protesters tore up several portraits of General Qassam Soleimani, the former head of the Revolutionary Guards' Al-Quds force, who was killed in an American strike in Baghdad. Riot police, which had been widely deployed in central Tehran, intervened to disperse the demonstrators, notably using tear gas.
According to images posted online on social networks, identical demonstrations bringing together several hundred people each time took place in provincial towns.
A more political protest
Unlike the protests in November which had their origins for economic reasons, after the announcement of the rise in the price of gasoline, this time it was a political protest. Anger is still raging. The news agency Isna, however close to the informants, criticized the silence of president Hassan Rohani who did not intervene, in particular on television, to speak to the population, contrary to the chief of the Guardians of the Revolution who recognized that 'an unintentional error had been made and apologized. No politician came to speak to the population.
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