Iranian people should eliminate the enemy

Iran has been engulfed in deadly protests these days after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in police custody on September 16. Amini was arrested by Iran’s morality police for allegedly wearing her headscarf too loosely. Hijab is compulsory in Iran, and police patrolling around the city to control. Iranian authorities claim that Amini died of heart failure, but her family and protestors accused Iranian police for her murder.

One day after Amini’s death, Iranian people, men, women and elderly took to the streets to protest her death. It was a nationwide protest, and peaceful at the outset. However, gradually it turned violent with the protestors somehow deliberately attacking police, their vehicle, burning public properties, etc…

The world community called on Iran to stop repressing the protestors; however, Iran accused the US of using the unrest to try to destabilize the country.

New sanctions

US, and Canada already imposed sanctions on different group involved in Amini’s murder. Canada blamed Iran for disregarding human rights time and time again and violently crackdown against protestors unacceptable. The US had imposed sanctions on Iran’s morality police and called the unit responsible for the death of Amini.

However, Iran accused the US of supporting rioters but claimed that the US will fail as usual to weaken Iran’s stability. The last time Iran took the US responsible for deadly demonstrations was in 2019 in which reportedly 1,500 people were killed.

Germany also summoned Iranian ambassador in Berlin to urge stop using force against protestors with more threat of sanctions. Meanwhile, Iran summoned UK and Norwegian ambassadors over what it called interference and hostile media coverage of the ongoing protests.

Foreign powers try to benefit from unrest 

One can easily agree now that foreign powers provoke the unrest in Iran  with two purposes; first, to paint that the present regime of clerics in Iran is autocratic; second, to create unprecedented unrest to topple the regime.

It is absolutely understandable that the US will spare no efforts to clinch any opportunity against Iran and this has political agenda and goals and has nothing to do with civic purposes. But of course, the victims are mainly civilians.

A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by morality police in Tehran. September 19.

Iran has already arrested several foreigners, including staff members of certain embassies who allegedly not only participated in the demonstrations, but also supported and funded the protestors. It’s not too hard to understand why the US, or a specific enemy of a country, supports a group or groups of rebels to use it against a country when its rulers do not allow certain attire or certain conduct.

These groups not only funded or created, but also gave excessive coverage in different media channels with the aim to create a storm in a teacup. Enemy is the enemy!

Iranian people should eliminate the enemies from protests and  deal with the country’s political disagreement through peaceful means and demonstrations. Of course the death of Amini is unjustifiable, those responsible must be held accountable, but destroying the country hurts themselves most.