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- The Iranian parliament wants the judiciary to crack down on the demonstrators.
- Meanwhile, protests against the Islamist regime in Tehran continued over the weekend.
- The security forces in the Kurdish-dominated part of Iran are acting particularly harshly against demonstrators.
Students at various universities in the country apparently continued their protest actions. Further sit-ins are said to have taken place at the renowned Sharif University in Tehran on Sunday. This is out of solidarity with fellow students who were arrested in earlier actions.
Opposition groups are also reporting new actions at Tehran’s universities. The wave of protests in Iran initially focused on the paternalism of women through supposedly Islamic moral codes, in particular the compulsory headscarf.
“Death to the dictator!”
But the Islamist regime as a whole is increasingly being targeted. Videos on the Internet could also be heard at the weekend like “Death to the dictator!” is chanted, coined to refer to the revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khamenei, in whom decision-making power is concentrated in Iran’s political system.
The extent of the protests in the face of state repression is unclear. Likewise the number of those arrested and killed. President Ebrahim Raisi stressed at the weekend that Iran’s cities are safe and calm.
Parliament demands full harshness of the judiciary
Parliament, with its majority loyal to the regime, spoke in a resolution of inciters backed by Iran’s foreign enemies, particularly the United States and Israel. The judiciary should take uncompromising action against these inciters – even to the point of imposing the death penalty.
In the past few days, the security forces have evidently acted particularly harshly in the Kurdish-dominated part of the country. The same goes for Sistan and Balochistan, the poorest region in Iran on the border with Pakistan. Protests have been particularly strong in the two areas since the wave began in September.