UN and Amnesty International Condemn the Crackdown on Iran Protests

On Tuesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported that dozens of people have been killed in continuing protests across Iran – mostly by live ammunition. Rupert Colville, the Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said: “We are deeply concerned by reported violations of international norms and standards on the use of force, including the firing of live ammunition, against demonstrators in Iran during the protests that began on Friday and have continued into this week. We are especially alarmed that…

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Iran Protests: Heavy Punishment for the Regime

“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.” These are the words of the famous French author Guy de Maupassant, underlining the right of the people to take their rights. The Iranian regime’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini claimed victory after killing 120,000 people of Iran and said that the story of resistance in front of this regime is over. Now his successor, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is confessing about the resistance of…

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