Iranian state television broadcast a speech by the country’s leader, Ali Khamenei, on the news this evening. Suddenly, the screens stopped showing the leader and instead showed a sign with his face and a target pointed to his forehead. Just below it appeared an inscription: “Your hands are full of the blood of our youth.”
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On the plaque that replaced the leader’s speech, Khamenei appeared surrounded by flames and wearing a rifle scope, and below, in addition to the inscriptions, photos of Mahsa Amini and other young women who died in the protests that took place. going on for more than a month in the Asian country. A voice on these images recited the slogan of the protests: “Woman, freedom, life”.
When the image was cut, the news anchor, with a visible pained gesture, said: “Dear viewers, I invite you to see the rest of the news”. The hacker group Edalat-e Ali (Justice of Ali) claimed responsibility for the action.
Iranian television was just cut off in the middle of the Ayatollah’s speech. “The blood of our young people dripping from your claws” could be read on all the screens of the country, while in the background you could hear “Woman, life, freedom”. Stupendous. pic.twitter.com/mrQ4EHtND9
– Agustín Antonetti (@agusantonetti) 8 October 2022
The figure of Khamenei was one of the targets of the young people who protested the death of Amini, which took place last September 16, after being arrested. In the many protests across the country one of the songs is “Death to the Dictator”, in reference to the supreme leader. Also resonate “Death to Khamenei” or “Dead to the Islamic Republic”.
Those cries resound at night in many neighborhoods of Tehran from the windows of houses. The 83-year-old religious leader reappeared in mid-September after news and rumors of his poor health. Despite several public appearances, it wasn’t until October 3, after two weeks of protests, that he mentioned Amini’s death in a speech in which he blamed the US and Israel for the protests.
Amini, 22, died on September 16 after being arrested three days earlier by the so-called Morale Police in Tehran on the grounds that she was wearing the Islamic headscarf incorrectly. The State Forensic Organization of Iran said Friday that Amini died from a previous ailment and not from police beatings.
