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Niece of Iran’s Supreme Leader urges world to cut ties with Tehran over unrest


DUBAI: The granddaughter of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a prominent human rights activist, has called on foreign governments to cut all ties with Tehran following a violent crackdown on unrest. popularized by the death of a young woman while in police custody.
A video of the claim of Farideh Moradkhani, an engineer whose late father was a prominent opposition figure married to Khamenei’s sister, was widely shared online after the activist news agency HRANA said she was arrested on November 23.
Moradkhani said in the video: “O free people, be with us and tell your government to stop supporting this murderous and child-killing regime.” “This regime is not loyal to any of its religious principles and does not know any rules except force and maintains power.”
Khamenei’s office did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
HRANA said 450 protesters had been killed in more than two months of nationwide unrest as of November 26, including 63 minors. It said 60 members of the security force were killed and 18,173 protesters detained.
The protests, which erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian-Kurdish woman, after she was arrested for “inappropriate attire”, pose one of the biggest challenges facing the educational establishment. of the country since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Challenging the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic, protesters from all walks of life burned pictures of Khamenei and called for the fall of Iran’s Shi’ite Muslim theocracy.
The video was shared on YouTube on Friday by her brother, Mahmoud Moradkhani, who lives in France, who introduces himself as a “rival of the Islamic Republic” on his Twitter account, and later the Renowned Iranian human rights activist.
On November 23, Mahmoud Moradkhani reported his sister’s arrest while she was executing a court order to appear at the Tehran prosecutor’s office. Farideh was arrested by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry earlier this year and later released on bail.
HRANA said she was in Tehran’s Evin security prison. Moradkhani had previously faced a 15-year prison sentence on unspecified charges.
Her father, Ali Moradkhani Arangeh, was a Shi’ite cleric who married Khamenei’s sister and recently died in Tehran after years of isolation due to his stance against the Islamic Republic, according to his website.
Farideh Moradkhani added in his video: “Now is the time for all free and democratic countries to recall their representatives from Iran as a symbolic gesture and expel the representatives of the regime. this atrocity from their country.”
On Thursday, the United Nations’ top human rights body decided to set up a new investigative mission to look into Tehran’s violent security crackdown on anti-government protests.
It is not unheard of for relatives of top officials to criticize the Islamic Republic. In 2012, Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, daughter of late president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was sentenced to prison for “conducting propaganda against the state”. (

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