The Iranian Revolutionary Guard issued a new appeal to the participants in the ongoing demonstrations in the country since the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, during her arrest at a police station last September, while Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei pledged to confront the "rebels."
Today, Sunday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard called on "the deceived to return to the embrace of the nation," he said.
Demonstrations continued in a number of Iranian universities to protest the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, after her arrest by the police last September.
Yesterday, Saturday, social media reported scenes of students at the Amir Kabir University of Technology in the capital, Tehran, organizing a sit-in in protest against the authorities' arrest of a number of their colleagues.
The students stressed that they would continue to sit-in and boycott entry to examination halls until the Iranian authorities respond to their demands to release their detained colleagues and stop expelling students from universities.
The Union of Students of Islamic Organizations published a post on its Telegram account, in which it confirmed that the students of the University of Science and Culture in Tehran organized a protest in solidarity with the people of the Kurdistan Province, in which demonstrations continue against the background of the killing of Amini, condemning the "killing of the demonstrators by the security forces in the province."
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On the other hand, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei praised the volunteers joining the ranks of the Revolutionary Guards for "suppressing the demonstrations in the country."
And state television quoted Khamenei - while receiving members of the Basij forces affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards - accusing the demonstrators of being "a group of ignorant people, or hired soldiers."
He praised the importance of the Basij's role in suppressing the demonstrations, and called for the punishment of what he described as "rebels and terrorists."
Since last September 16, protests have continued across Iran in response to the death of young woman Amini (22 years old), 3 days after she was arrested by the morality police concerned with monitoring women's dress code.
The incident sparked widespread public anger in the political and media circles in Iran, amid conflicting accounts of the causes of death.
Official sources say that civilians and members of the security forces were killed in the demonstrations, which spread to many governorates of the country, but there was no accurate information on the death toll.