Paris Sep 30 :- Iran stepped up pressure on celebrities and journalists on Thursday over the wave of women-led protests sparked by outrage over the death of Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the Islamic republic’s morality police.
Filmmakers, athletes, musicians and actors have backed the demonstrations, and many saw it as a signal when the national football team remained in their black tracksuits when the anthems were played before a match in Vienna against Senegal. “We’ll take action against the celebrities who have fanned the flames of the riots,” Tehran provincial governor Mohsen Mansouri said, ISNA news agency.
Iran’s judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei similarly charged that “those who became famous thanks to support from the system have joined the enemy when times are difficult”. The warnings came after almost two weeks of protests across Iran.
Public anger flared after Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died on September 16, three days after her arrest for allegedly breaching Iran’s strict rules for women on wearing hijab headscarves. “Woman, Life, Freedom!” protesters have chanted ever since, in Iran’s biggest demonstrations in almost three years. .
President Ebrahim Raisi warned that, despite “grief and sorrow” over Amini’s death, public security “is the red line of the Islamic republic of Iran and no one is allowed to break the law and cause chaos”. The nation is open to reviewing how it applies strict Islamic laws – but not the values that underpin them, the president said. “We should pursue the best methods for the implementation of the law – every law,” Raisi said.
Iran on Thursday arrested the reporter Elahe Mohammadi, who had covered Amini’s funeral, her lawyer said, the latest of a growing number of journalists to be detained. Iran also slammed “interference” in its internal affairs by France over a statement in support of the rallies. Agencies
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