Iranian President Raisi: "Mahsa Amini's death will be investigated"

After six days of protests and bloodshed, Tehran opens to the hypothesis of an investigation into the death of Mahsa Amini.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that the death of the young woman

for having "worn the Islamic veil incorrectly" "will be investigated". 

"I contacted the victim's family and assured us that we will continue to investigate the accident quickly - he added speaking in New York - Our concern is the safeguarding of the rights of all citizens".

However, the Iranian president himself blatantly deserted an interview with CNN because the interviewer - the famous anchorwoman Christiane Amanpour - refused to wear the veil as requested by the staff of the Iranian presidency.

The carrot and the stick

In the same hours, a diametrically opposite message comes from the security apparatus in Tehran.

Using an iron fist against the protesters who took to the streets in Iran, asks the head of the Iranian judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei.

Mohseni-Ejei has ordered to crack down on protests and not to compromise when it comes to "professional rioters" and leaders of the riots, the official Irna news agency reported. 

Sixth day of protests

It is the sixth day of protests in Iran to demand justice for

As the streets of the capital fill with protesters, the authorities have decided to restrict access to Instagram and WhatsApp.

NetBlocks made it known by pointing out that this is the largest restriction on social media nationwide since 2019, when internet access was restricted amid the fuel protests. 

The NGO Iran Human Rights (Ihr) reports that there are thirty-one victims of the repression, among them, writes the BBC, there is also a 16-year-old boy, killed when the security forces opened fire on the demonstrators, but the number number of victims could be higher.

Four members of the security forces were also killed, although Iranian officials denied any involvement by the security forces in the demonstrators' deaths.

According to Iranian news agencies, three paramilitaries "mobilized to confront the rioters" in the northwestern city of Tabriz, the central city of Qazvin and the northeastern city of Mashhad were killed Wednesday with knives or bullets.

According to the same source, a member of the security forces was killed on Tuesday during the protests in Shiraz. 

Last night, NetBlocks reported an almost total interruption of the Internet service in parts of the Kurdistan province in western Iran, where Amini was born, and in the capital Tehran, where the young woman was arrested, while traveling with the family.

Under the hashtags

and

many videos and photos documenting the repression, from the arrest of Masha to those of the riots of women who burn their veils and cut their hair.

There are also many men among them.

Also in Europe,

, some women cut their hair as a sign of solidarity with Iranian women.

Footage circulating on social media shows Iranian police officers shooting at women and boys.

The unrest has spread to more than 20 major cities, the capital Tehran, reaching as far as Mashhad, the hometown of the supreme leader

: women wave the veil in the air or burn hijabs shouting: "No to the veil, no to the turban, yes to freedom and equality! "

The interruption does not prevent, however, some images, in which the blood unfortunately flows, from going around the world on social media.

A sign that the protest says a lot about the climate in which the Islamic country finds itself in terms of civil rights, and not only in reference to women and the strict laws regarding the use of the hijab.

Amini is only the last to have paid with her life since in 1981, after the return of the conservatives, an edict requires women to wear the veil in public places, to the point of making its non-use a criminal offense, with penalties that they range from whipping to jail.

Many other Iranians have been victims of the religious police.

The rules apply to both women residing in Iran and foreigners.

The

(from the Arabic term to cover), must be worn by everyone from 9 years of age: the hair and the body with the exception of the face and hands, must be covered and this speaks volumes about the serious gender discrimination that it is in force in the Islamic-led country

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Iran, the protest of the veil

The news of the violent repression worries the international community and the leaders of some countries gathered in New York for the

.

The US is "at the side of the brave Iranian women," said

speaking yesterday at the glass palace, while the Iranian president

, also in New York, never mentioned the Amini case in his speech, but accused the West of having "double standards" on rights, especially those of women.

"Iran rejects the double standard of some governments - he added - human rights belong to everyone but unfortunately there are cases such as native tribes in Canada, the rights of Palestinians, migrants who seek freedom but their children end up in cages, African Americans killed ". 

The French newspaper

today

defines the protest as "a dangerous impasse for the Iranian authorities".

Amnesty International

has asked the leaders of the world, gathered in these days at the United Nations General Assembly, to support the calls for the

Amnesty gathered evidence of the illegal use of force by Iranian security forces, which used metal shot and metal shot, tear gas, water cannons and batons to disperse the protests.

now he is urging the world to act to stop the repression.