The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned protesters that their time is up Saturday, threatening to increase their crackdown as thousands continued to demonstrate across the country.
The warnings came amid reports that a 17-year-old protestor had been beaten to death earlier this week with a police baton. Protestors said that student Sadaf Movahedi died Monday at the hands of “suppressive forces.”
Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police last month — one of the biggest threats to the country’s leadership
“Do not come to the streets! Today is the last day of the riots,” Guards commander Hossein Salami said, blaming the West for fomenting the protests.“This sinister plan, is a plan hatched … in the White House and the Zionist regime.”
The widely feared Revolutionary Guards, an elite force skilled at cracking down on dissent, report to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and they have not been deployed since demonstrations began Sept. 16.
Human rights groups say that at least 250 protestors have been killed and thousands arrested across the country.
with Post wires