Iran
protests latest: Protestors attacked with TEAR GAS as Iran REFUSES to talk with
Trump
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EXCLUSIVE:
VIOLENCE broke out across Iran last night after protesters were attacked with
tear gas by security forces during strikes over high prices, power outages and
water shortages as the
regime
refused to enter talks with US President Donald Trump.
By Vickiie
Oliphant
PUBLISHED: 16:18, Wed, Aug 1, 2018 |
UPDATED: 16:23, Wed, Aug 1, 2018
As night settled in Iran yesterday, protests that began on Tuesday afternoon continued
across the impoverished country - with shopkeepers, market vendors, farmers and
truck drivers taking to the streets in protest about worsening conditions.
Dozens of store owners in the area have closed their shops and are on strike
after the rial’s value dropped by 120 percent in the last six months alone.
Iran has also been hit by falling salaries
set against the rising cost of living, while water shortages and power outages
have also hit the embattled country.
Videos obtained from the protests show
protesters are not afraid of the regime’s repressive forces and are confronting
them despite heavy security presence.
Protesters chant the game is over for both
factions of the regime, both the "reformists" and the
"hardliners".
In Karaj, protests took a dramatic turn
last night as demonstrators clashed with security forces, chanting anti-regime
slogans.
In one clip, young protesters are seen
being crippled with tear gas as the mostly peaceful protests took a violent and
dark twist - with protestors later setting tires on fire.
In another video, demonstrators can be
heard chanting “down with Khamenei” and “Our enemy is here, they are lying when
they say it is the US”.
A separate video also shows as the
protesters chant: “Guns, tanks, are no longer effective, mullahs should get
lost.”
In Shiraz, security forces have also
started targeting protesters with tear gas.
According to local reports, a young boy
who had attended the protest along with his mother was injured amid
the heavy handed crackdown.
And in Isfahan, the crowd were chanting:
“Death to high prices, death to unemployment,” “death to the dictator,”
“dignified Shapouris, support us, support us,” “dignified Iranians,
support us, support us,” and “incompetent officials, resign, resign.”
Others were heard saying “any Iranian who
remains silent is committing treason” as they called on their compatriots to
support them in their cause.
Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the
Iranian Resistance, saluted the “brave people” of Karaj, Isfahan, and Shiraz
following the protests this week.
In a comment provided to Express.co.uk,
she said the source of all the miseries of the Iranian nation is the religious
dictatorship, which has wasted the wealth and human resources of our homeland.
The statement continued: “Now, the world
is witnessing that despite the massive repression by the religious fascism, the
Iranian people’s uprising is constantly on the rise.
“It has cornered the absolute rule
of the clergy and heralds the arrival of the spring of freedom to our captive
country.”
She also tweeted: "The Iranian
people’s nationwide uprising is growing by the day. Hail to the peoples of
Isfahan, Gohardasht of Karaj, and Shiraz.
“The time has come for rising up.
The persistence of your uprising has beset the mullahs’ religious dictatorship.
“Today, the world can see that the voice
of Iranians cannot be silenced despite massive repression, and their uprisings
are carrying on until victory.
“These are the blazing flames of a
resistance with over 100,000 martyrs, flaring up in the streets after forty
years.”
The dramatic protests come after senior
Iranian officials and military commanders rejected US President Donald Trump’s
offer of talks.
Military officials slammed the proposals
as “worthless” and “a dream”, saying Mr Trump’s words contradict his actions of
reimposing sanctions on Tehran.
Iran’s foreign minister said that
Washington should blame itself for ending talks with Tehran when it withdrew
from the nuclear deal.
“US can only blame itself for pulling out
and leaving the table...Threats, sanctions and PR stunts won’t work,” Mohammad
Javad Zarif said in a tweet.
While President Rouhani condemned Mr Trump’s
repudiation of an international nuclear deal reached in 2015 as “illegal”.
He added Iran would not easily yield to
Washington’s renewed campaign to strangle Iran’s vital oil exports.
President Trump pulled the United States
out of the multilateral deal , which was concluded by the Obama
administration, in May.
The former businessman denounced the
agreement as one-sided in Iran’s favour.
But on Monday, he said he would be willing
to meet Rouhani without preconditions to discuss how to improve relations.
Iran news: Security forces have also
started targeting protesters with tear gas (Image: PMOI - NCRI)
Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk,
Shahin Gobadi of the Foreign affairs Committee of the NCRI said the
continuation and frequency of protests have one clear message.
He told Express.co.uk: "The Iranian
people are determined to bring about a regime change and they are not going to
stop at anything short of that. The prospect for the mullahs to find a way out
is becoming dimmer by the day.
"This is why the regime’s senior
officials keep warning about the bleak prospects that loom on the horizon for
the regime and the growing role of the resistance.
"As such, the regime’s official in
charge of dealing with “soft warfare” stated on August 1, that 90 percent of
the strikes and calls for protests are the result of activities of the
“counter-revolutionaries”, ie the Iranian resistance."
Iran protests: Thousands have flocked to
the streets (Image: PMOI - NCRI)
Last month, thousands of Iranians flocked
to Paris for the 10th annual Free Iran rally - with speakers such as Trump's
close allies newt Gingrich and Rudy Guiliani speaking in favour of freeing
Tehran from the "murderous" Reouhani regime.
Mr Gobadi added: "It is time for the
European countries to see the fast-moving realities in Iran and forgo any deals
with the Iranian regime.
"Rather they should hold the clerical
regime accountable for all its malign activities and side with the Iranian
people and their aspirations.
"We would welcome any serious and
tangible retreat by the mullahs because that would ultimately serve the
interests of the Iranian people and the resistance units to bring down the
regime and to establish democracy.
"But as the regime’s supreme leader,
Ali Khamenei, has said time and again the regime is incapable of any major
change of policies and change of direction.
"He said explicitly on May 10, 2017,
that so far as the regime is concerned a change of conduct
and behavior is tantamount to a change of the regime in its entirety.
Iran protests: In Karaj, protests took a
dramatic turn last night (Image: PMOI - NCRI)
Iranian lawmakers have given President
Hassan Rouhani one month to appear before parliament to answer questions on his
government's handling of Iran's economic struggles.
It is the first time parliament has
summoned Rouhani, who is under pressure from hardline rivals to change his
cabinet following a deterioration in relations with the United States and
Iran's growing economic difficulties.
Lawmakers want to question Rouhani on
topics including the rial's decline, which has lost more than half its value
since April, weak economic growth and rising unemployment, according to
semi-official ISNA news agency.
Rouhani, a pragmatist who reduced tensions
with the West by striking a nuclear deal in 2015, is facing a growing backlash
since U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out from the pact in May and said he
will reimpose sanctions that seek to throttle Iran's economy, including its
lifeblood oil exports.
ISNA said lawmakers also want to Rouhani
to explain why, more than two years after the landmark deal, Iranian banks
still have only limited access to global financial services.https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/997425/Iran-news-protests-latest-tear-gas-Trump-news-nuclear-deal-sanctions-Hassan-Rouhani
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