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Tehran steps up crackdown on protests
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Tehran steps up crackdown on protests
Iran has vowed to hold public trials to punish up to 1,000 protesters, Iranian media reported Monday, building on the regime’s latest efforts to quell protests that have erupted across the country.
For only about seven weeks, the government rushed, and failed, to quell the outburst of anger over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police. In the ensuing clashes, some 272 protesters were killed, totaling 39 children, while another 14,000 people were arrested.
On Saturday, Hossein Salami, head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, issued one of the regime’s harshest threats to date, warning that Saturday would be the “last day” of the unrest and ordering protesters to stay home. Salami is “probably the only user the protesters care almost as much as [Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei,” said Alex Vatanka, director of the Iran program at the Middle East Institute.
However, the call did not have the effect he probably expected. Instead of retreating, protests continued Sunday sweeping university campuses despite a violent crackdown, in a clear repudiation of the authority of the Revolutionary Guards.
Experts say Tehran’s resolve to exercise caution, and the open defiance of protesters in reaction, underscores the regime’s evolving considerations on the unrest.
The fact that the Iranian government “almost has to come out and give an ultimatum like this tells me that they don’t see the end and are starting to worry about how this scenario will last,” Vatanka said.
While Iran has intensified its repression, so has global tension against the regime. Canada on Monday unveiled a new list of sanctions against senior Iranian officials, while the European Union reportedly designates the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group.
What we are today
Israel votes. Israelis will go to the polls today to vote in national elections for the fifth time in four years. The election is perceived as a contest between right-wing former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was ousted in June 2021 and recently faces corruption charges, and Yair. Lapid, Israel’s centrist interim leader.
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has not spoken out publicly since narrowly defeating Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the October 30 election circular; There is concern that he will question the legitimacy of the effects or refuse to budge. Truckers who support him have blocked roads in more than three hundred places across the country, while other supporters have surrounded military bases, urging the army to intervene. The Supreme Court ordered truckers to dismantle roadblocks and opponents or face fines of more than $19,000 per hour.
Lebanon is facing a power vacuum after President Michel Aoun’s political term ended on Monday without any successor in position to fill his post. poverty.
Keep an eye on
Ukrainians in Kyiv have had to queue for water as Russia hits Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, leaving citizens facing water shortages. An estimated 40 percent of Kyiv’s citizens lost their water supply, while 270,000 houses suffered forced cuts on Monday night, said Vitaly Klitschko, the city’s chief. mayor.
The deadly typhoon Filipinas. Al at least 98 other people were killed and 69 others injured after a tropical typhoon ripped through the Philippines last weekend, triggering landslides and millions of dollars in infrastructure losses. Another 63 people are still missing, the government said.
Most on Monday
• Why is Russia a democracy?by Lucian Kim
• How Biden’s team tried to protect Brazilian elections through Robbie Gramer
• Biden shorts China through Rishi Iyengar
tips
Dutch artist Piet Mondrian is known for his abstract and geometric works that highlight number one colors. But one of his works, titled New York City I, would likely have been exhibited like this for 75 years, The Guardian reported.
“The thickening of the grid deserves to be at the top, like a dark sky,” curator Susanne Meyer-Büser told The Guardian. “Once I pointed it out to the other conservatives, we learned it was very obvious. I am one hundred percent sure that the photo is the way.
Although the art world remains divided, the paintings will still hang in the same way, possibly upside down. The piece is already fragile, the mavens warn, and turning it around now could destroy it.
Christina Lu is a journalist at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @christinafei
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