Iran’s hardline president to address nation as unrest spreads – By Reuters (The Jerusalem Post) / Sept 28, 2022
Raisi to touch on ‘most important domestic, foreign issues’ • Growing death toll as protests spread to over 80 cities
Hardline President Ebrahim Raisi planned a television address to the nation on Wednesday amid a tide of anti-government unrest in Iran, with protesters chanting “death to the dictator,” after the death of a young woman in police custody.
Despite a growing death toll and fierce crackdown by security forces using tear gas, clubs and, in some cases, live ammunition, social media videos showed Iranians persisting with protests, often calling for the end of the Islamic clerical establishment’s more than four decades in power.
Still, a collapse of the Islamic Republic seems remote in the near term since its leaders are determined not to show weakness they believe sealed the fate of the US-backed Shah in 1979, a senior Iranian official told Reuters.
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