Hossein Salami, head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard [로이터 = 연합뉴스]Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened to crack down on anti-government protesters.
Foreign media, including CNN, reported on the 29th (local time), citing Iran’s state-run IRNA, that the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, warned that “protesters should not go on the streets no more” and that “this will be the last day of the riot.”
At a funeral for the victims of the Islamic holy land terrorism held in Shiraz, the central city of Shiraz, the head chief Salami said, “The anti-government protests are going on according to the plans of the United States and the Zionist regime ( Israel).” “They don’t call you directly, but they make you protest through the media,” he said.
CNN explained that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps was making a claim of ‘interference in internal affairs’ by referring to it as a ‘media war’. CNN reported that General Salami warned the US, Britain and Saudi Arabia not to “interfere in domestic affairs”. The Iranian government has recently accused the US CIA and others of having met with Kurz’s Iranian leaders and instigating anti-government protests.
Large-scale anti-government protests are underway in Iran after a 22-year-old woman was arrested by police last month for not wearing a hijab properly and even killed. According to CNN, international human rights groups claim that around 250 people have been killed during the protests in Iran.
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