In a video Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei‘s niece Farideh Moradkhani has urged foreign governments to sever all ties with Tehran over its violent crackdown on protesters who have been on the streets against the custodial death of Irani-Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini in September this year.
In a video , Farideh Moradkhani, an engineer by profession– whose late father, a prominent opposition figure, married to Khamenei’s sister– said that world’s free people should be with us and tell your governments to stop supporting this murderous and child-killing regime”, according to activist news agency HRANA.
Moradkhani said that the Iranian regime was not loyal to any of its religious principles and did not know any rules except for using force and resorting to power.
According to HRANA, around 450 protesters had been killed in the last two months of nationwide protests in Iran, including 63 minors. It said that 60 members of the security forces had also been killed. Iran has detained 18,173 protesters.
The protest demonstrations, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest for wearing inappropriate dress, posed one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iran member of parliament from the mainly Kurdish city of Mahabad Jalal Mahmoudzadeh said that around 105 people had been killed in Iran’s Kurdish-populated areas during the demonstrations. He was speaking in a debate in Iran’s parliament as quoted by the Entekhan website.
