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Iran: Regime acknowledges rise in popular enmity towards its leaders

NCRI – In the recent weeks, regime’s suppressive forces have conducted extensive arrests of the youth for dissemination of jokes or insulting material against Ruhollah Khomeini, the regime’s founder and Ali Khamenei, the regime’s Supreme Leader.

IRGC Colonel Esmael Mohebbipour, a senior IRGC commander in Shiraz, stated: 11 individuals “who played a central role in dissemination of insulting material against the founder of the Islamic Revolution were identified and apprehended following internet control of telephone social networks such as Whatsapp, Line, Viber, Tango and Telegram.”

Mohebbipour acknowledged the rise in popular hatred for regime’s leaders: In the past two weeks, posting of messages insulting Khomeini in the form of jokes began with a mild slope and as it spread… those who played a central role in the dissemination of these messages were identified… what was found in the homes of all the arrestees was their use of satellite dishes.

Widespread arrests and suppressive measures by the mullahs’ regime for “dissemination of insulting material against” Khomeini shows the rise in the popular abhorrence and protest against the clerical regime as a whole, as well as the fragile state and the vulnerability of the mullahs’ regime regarding popular movements and the fear of regime’s leaders of the rise in popular uprisings.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 22, 2014