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voiced his support for "the brave women of Iran."
Outrage over the 22-year-old's death on September 16, three days after she was arrested by Iran's notorious morality police, has fueled the biggest wave of street protests and violence seen in the country for years.
Young women have been on the front line of the protests, screaming and hollering, removing their headscarves and facing off with security forces in the streets.
Despite blocked access to internet services and platforms like Instagram and WhatsApp, activists issued an online appeal for a huge turnout for protests on Saturday under the catchcry "The beginning of the end!"
They have called on people across Iran
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to show up at spots where the security forces are not present and to chant "Death to the dictator" -- a reference to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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"We have to be present in the squares, because the best VPN these days is the street," they declared, referring to virtual private networks used to skirt internet restrictions.
- 'BRAVE WOMEN OF IRAN' -
The protesters drew support from the US president, who said he was "stunned" by the mass demonstrations, now in their fifth week.
"I want you to know that we stand with the citizens, the brave women of Iran," Biden said late Friday.
"It stunned me what it awakened in Iran. It awakened something that I don't think will be quieted for a long, long time," he said.
"Women all over the world are being persecuted in various ways, but they should be able to wear in God's name what they want to wear," said Biden.
Iran "has to end the violence against its own citizens simply exercising their fundamental rights," he added.
At least 108 people have been killed in the Amini protests, and at least 93 more have died in separate festivities in Zahedan, capital of the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, according to Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights.
The unrest has continued despite what
- INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION -
The bloody crackdown has drawn international condemnation and new sanctions on Iran from Britannia, Canada and the United States.
Iran's supreme leader has accused the country's enemies, including the United States and Israel, of fomenting the "riots."
On Friday, Khamenei's government condemned French President Emmanuel Macron for remarks in which he expressed solidarity with the protests sparked over Amini's death.
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"This is clear hypocrisy," he said.
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Scores of jeering and whistling protesters hurled projectiles at security forces near a landmark roundabout in Hamedan city, west of Tehran, in footage verified by AFP.
Despite what online monitor NetBlocks called a "major disruption to internet traffic", protesters were also seen pouring onto the streets of the northwestern city of Ardabil, in videos shared on Twitter.
Shopkeepers went on strike in Amini's hometown Saqez, in Kurdistan province, and Mahabad in West Azerbaijan, said the 1500tasvir social media channel that monitors protests and police violations.
- 'BRAVE WOMEN OF IRAN' -
In response to the protests, one of Iran's main revolutionary bodies, the Islamic Development Coordination Council, has urged people to "express their revolutionary anger against sedition and rioters" after prayers on Saturday evening.
A call also went out this week for "retirees" of the Revolutionary Guards to meet on Saturday given "the current sensitive situation", according to a journalist at Shargh newspaper.
At the gathering, a Guards commander said three members of its Basij militia had been killed and 850 wounded in Tehran since the start of the "sedition", state news agency IRNA said.
EU countries agreed this week to level new sanctions, and the move is due to be endorsed at the bloc's foreign ministers' meeting in Luxembourg on Monday.
In response to the protests, the clerical state's security forces have also launched a campaign of mass arrests of artists, dissidents, journalists and athletes.
Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi said the authorities barred him from travelling to the London Film Festival over his support for the protests.
The British Film Institute said Haghighi had been due to attend the festival for his latest film "Subtraction", but the Iranian authorities "confiscated his passport".
"I cannot put into words the joy and the honour of being able to witness first-hand this great moment in history," said Haghighi
"So if this is a punishment for what I've done, then by all means, bring it on."
| From the Times of Israel: |
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