The protest is spreading: Thousands of demonstrators continue to demonstrate in the streets of Iran as part of a protest over the killing of Mehsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who, according to reports, was beaten to death by the “morality police” because she wore a hijab “sloppyly”. Meanwhile, the wave of international support for the Iranian protest crossed borders, and people all over the world expressed sympathy with the struggle.
Meanwhile, the name Mahsa Amini quickly became one of the hottest topics on his social network in general and Twitter in particular. The hashtag containing her name has already reached 80 million uses by users of the social network from all over the world. Public figures and celebrities who left Iran also began to make their voices heard and their support fully heard. The Iranian-Kurdish musician, Kaihan Kalhorpublished a post on his Instagram account and wrote that “all the stages I play on will be the platform of freedom seekers and free people. I miss my country, Iran. Hand in hand we will march by your side,” he wrote.
This is not a scene from The Handmaid’s Tale. But it might explain why people chant “death to the dictator” throughout Iran. #MahsaAmini #Mehsa_Amini #IranProtests2022 pic.twitter.com/nPKHagWnxI
— Omid Memarian (@Omid_M) September 25, 2022
At the same time, thousands of Iranians living in the city of Toronto, Canada, held a large gathering last night on Young Street in the city, and expressed their solidarity with the protests in their homeland. During the protest, they carried signs and chanted chants and slogans against the regime, and in favor of the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. Other activists living in the country organized a protest in the city of Vancouver as well.
In the meantime, the Washington Post newspaper reported that “although it seems that the security forces in Iran are in control of the situation, the signs of the Islamic Republic’s fragility are much greater than in the weeks preceding the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia in 2010.” It also states that “the protests are a nationwide rebellion led by women against the people who ruled the country for four decades. Iran’s transition from theocracy to democracy may not be easy, but this event is a key point in the change in the Middle East.”