The country has been experiencing constant protests since the death on September 16 of the young Mahsa Amini, after being arrested by the Moral Police for wearing the Islamic veil incorrectly.
Iranian youth has improvised Various ways to protest in Iranfrom women who walk without veils shouting from windows to protest songs, and in recent days a new method has been imposed: remove the turban from the clerics.
The modus operandi is already viral on social networks: a young man or girl approaches a clergyman from behind and with his hand he hits the turban with which he covers his head until it falls to the ground, many times to the laughter of those present.
And, of course, it is recorded on video to later share it on Twitter, Instagram or Telegrambattlefields as important as the streets of the country.
A new form of protest in Iran:
More and more young women are recording themselves slapping clerics’ turbans off in the middle of the street to show them that they have lost respect and fear for them. Braves.#IranRevolution #IranianWomen pic.twitter.com/PQbYrrwpJR– Javier Duran (@tortondo) November 6, 2022
In case there are any doubts about the message, a montage of these videos plays the song of the British group Queen I Want To Break Free.
Iran lives protests since the death 16 of September of the young Mahsa Amini after being arrested three days earlier by the Morale Police for wearing the Islamic veil wrongly, mobilizations calling for the end of the Islamic Republic.
The protests are mainly led by young people and women shouting “Woman, life, freedom!” that they launch slogans against the government and burn veilsone of the symbols of the Islamic Republic and something unthinkable until recently.
It was also unthinkable that young people would remove the turbans from the religious, a form of protest that shows the rejection of the clerics of the Islamic Republic founded by Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini in 1979.
The message, however, does not seem to reach the highest Iranian circles, which continue to point to the United States as the culprit of the protests and they seem closed off to the possibility that the population’s discontent is real.
Source: Eitb
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