The Internet is Back in Iran – News is Getting Out but the International Media is Still Downplaying the Scale of It All
The Free Iran Herald
By Editors of The Free Iran Herald Now bringing you daily updates on the events unfolding in Iran
Following the international outcry against the Islamic regime’s authorities blocking the internet to Iranians nationwide and the sanctioning of Mohammad-Javad Azari-Jahromi, Tehran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Internet in Iran has been restored.
In addition to having cut off Internet access, the regime is also exerting a censorship on journalists so severe now that even those who previously had worked within the regime’s press are going on strike against it. As a result, the regime is forced to rely on foreign sources for news of the protests. Lucky for the Khomeiniist officials, the international press, which is mostly left-leaning, slant toward the Islamic regime’s propaganda.
At the same time, the Supreme Leader’s proxy media outlet suggests targeting US/Saudi ‘strategic facilities’.
Hossein Shariatmadari, firebrand honcho of the Supreme Leader’s mouthpiece newspaper, Kayhan suggested on Wednesday that targeting “strategic military and economy centers” of the US, Israel, France, and Saudi Arabia should be targeted and retaliated against for their alleged support of the Iranian protesters. He describes it as Iran’s legit right to do so. Meanwhile, Iranian protesters are demanding that they stop referring to themselves as ‘Iran’ as they neither represent the Iranian people, nor the Iranian nation’s interest, but that of a Shi’a cabal that is using Iran’s assets in order to wreak international havoc.
Hossein Shariatmadari, firebrand honcho of the Supreme Leader’s mouthpiece newspaper, Kayhan (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)
Shariatmadari made the claim: “It’s possible to bring them to their knees through imposing heavy financial and military damage. Their sensitive and strategic military and economy centers are easily accessible.” Shariatmadari did not offer details on how they would carry out such retaliation.
On Monday as well, Shariatmadari called for the execution of protesters. In a panic over the spread of anti-government protests in Iran, Kayhan, referring to Iranian civil rights protesters wrote: “Hoodlums
should prepare for the noose…as their religious punishment is execution.”
In the interim, the regime is already planning on massacring the thousands they’ve arrested over the past week. The judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi, who oversaw the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, said today, before a gathering of Basij member, that “Under no circumstances will we allow the least amount of disruption.” Ahmad Khatami, another leading cleric, referred to the protestors as “corrupt on earth” (the highest level of crime under the Islamic regime’s laws) and called for their execution.
Meanwhile, news broke on Friday, that Massoud Molavi, an anti-regime Iranian journalist who had been living in exile in Istanbul, Turkey, was assassinated by regime agents on November 14th.
Turkey, which is very friendly with the Tehran regime, has been the scene of multiple assassinations of Iranian dissidents for decades. Molavi was probably targeted because he had set up a computer hacking organization that pierced the Ministry of Information’s network and exposed some of the regime officials’ corrupt business dealings. Mohammad Jahromi, the above-mentioned Minister of Communications and I.T. is specifically being accused of having murdered Molavi.
The level of hatred and defiance the people feel towards the regime was shown today at the supreme leader’s weekly prayer service in Tehran, where only a few people turned up at what is usually a well-attended, via the rounding up of disinterested average citizens to form a crowd, event.
While the Tehran prayer service went on, under heavy IRGC protection, prayer services in tens of other cities were cancelled due to fear of the protestors. In the prayer services that did occur, the clerics demanded that the Internet remain shut down, continued to blame the revolt on the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia, and excoriated the protestors for The level of hatred and defiance the people feel towards the regime was shown today at the supreme leader’s weekly prayer service in Tehran, where only a few people turned up at what is usually a well-attended, via the rounding up of disinterested average citizens to form a crowd, event.
While the Tehran prayer service went on, under heavy IRGC protection, prayer services in tens of other cities were cancelled due to fear of the protestors. In the prayer services that did occur, the clerics demanded that the Internet remain shut down, continued to blame the revolt on the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia, and excoriated the protestors for
Violence is still occurring, though video documentation.
Eyewitnesses in Tehran say that the IRGC and demonstrators are still clashing on the streets. According to one doctor at a Tehran hospital, 100 people are being shot and injured every day.
On the sidewalk, a protester lays bleeding, likely shot to death by the regime’s security forces
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Esfahan is also said to be experiencing clashes.
People in Malard, near Tehran, reported seeing what appeared to be a harsh battle during the night.
Fighting is also occurring between Iranian demonstrators and imported foreign militia members the IRGC has brought to Iran to help them control the people. In one clash, 9 Kurdish mercenaries are said to have been captured by protestors in Sanandaj.
More than 352 deaths have been reported though the numbers are still developing. Hundreds of civilians have been killed and wounded and thousands have been detained following protests across the country. So far, the total number of casualties that is known of has occurred in 43 cities, 15provinces.
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