“In the name of God” – this is how Badri Hosseini Khamenei begins her open letter. She writes to her brother, the Iranian despot Ali Khamenei (83). It’s not a love letter — it’s a reckoning her brother won’t like at all, and an encouragement to Iranians who have been fighting for freedom for weeks.
Because since Mahsa Amini died on September 16 as a result of brutal beatings by the so-called Iranian moral police because she allegedly had not worn her headscarf correctly, the riot in Iran can no longer be stopped. People are fed up with the arbitrariness, brutality, bondage, torture, rape and death sentences for crimes that are not crimes. They want to sing, dance, live, be free. What we in Europe enjoy every day as a matter of course. They have been demonstrating and striking for this every day since Amini’s death.
But Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei and his mullahs’ regime are fighting back with all their brutality.
During a demonstration against the mullahs’ regime in Paris on December 2, pictures were put up of people the regime has killed since the protests began. On the shield in front: Mahsa Amini
Now an important voice is publicly opposing him: his sister Badri Hosseini Khamenei.
In her letter, she speaks to her son Mahmoud Moradkhani Tehrani Twitter posted, pinpoint the grievances for which her brother is responsible. Years ago she tried to speak up for the people of Iran with him: “Decades ago, as my human duty, I brought the voice of the people to the ears of my brother Ali Khamenei. But after I saw that he wasn’t listening and that he was continuing on the path of Khomeini (the founder of the regime, who died in 1989; ed.) with oppression and the killing of innocent people, I ended my contact with him.”
Badri is the complete opposite of her brother. Shortly after the mullahs took power in Iran, she and her family resisted – for which she always had to pay dearly and with her health.
Her husband, Ali Tehrani, was jailed twice. Her daughter Farideh was only recently arrested when she clearly opposed her despotic uncle in a video.
“I believe that the Islamic Republic regime of Khomeini and Ali Khamenei has brought nothing but suffering and oppression in Iran and to the Iranians. The Iranian people deserve freedom and prosperity, their uprising is legitimate and necessary to achieve these rights. I hope for the victory of the people and the overthrow of this tyranny that rules Iran,” she writes in her letter. The Revolutionary Guards and their mercenaries should lay down their arms and join the people before it’s too late.
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Badri Hosseini Khamenei: “I am sorry that physical ailments prevent me from participating in the protest movements as I should. But in my heart and in my soul I am with the people of Iran. My brother did not listen to the voices of the people and mistakenly listened to the voices of mercenaries and money diggers. He fully deserves the disrespectful and outrageous words he usually uses to describe the downtrodden but brave. May the people’s legitimate struggle for freedom and democracy be realized as soon as possible.”