{"id":237504,"date":"2021-04-08T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237504"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:59:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:59:49","slug":"after-years-of-cover-up-former-mp-admits-regime-massacre-people-during-iran-protests-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/after-years-of-cover-up-former-mp-admits-regime-massacre-people-during-iran-protests-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"After Years of Cover-Up, Former MP Admits Regime Massacre People During Iran Protests in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-Tehran-IRCG-uprising-2019\" class=\"wp-image-237505 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Tehran-IRCG-uprising-2019.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-Tehran-IRCG-uprising-2019\" width=\"802\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Tehran-IRCG-uprising-2019.jpg 802w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Tehran-IRCG-uprising-2019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Tehran-IRCG-uprising-2019-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Tehran-IRCG-uprising-2019-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Tehran-IRCG-uprising-2019-696x463.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Recently, in a video clip circulating on social media, Mahmoud Sadeghi, a former member of parliament, acknowledged the regime\u2019s security forces killed innocent protesters during the major Iran <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener\">protests in November 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cIn commissions tasked with handling [the November uprising] asked if there was any sign of opposition groups, but they said no. I told Mr. Shamkhani that these are people. They are killing people in the street. What are you doing? Will you continue to kill if they remain in the streets? Shamkhani said, yes, we will do it,\u201d Mahmoud Sadeghi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ali Shamkhani is the regime\u2019s Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.<br \/>\nDuring the major Iran protests in November 2019, angry people stormed the regime\u2019s repression centers and called for regime change. The November 2019 uprising shook the regime\u2019s foundations. Thus, to prevent his regime from falling, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ordered his security forces and the Revolutionary Guards (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-irans-army-of-terror-and-oppression-revolutionary-guards-irgc\/\" rel=\"noopener\">IRGC<\/a>) to \u201cdo whatever they can.\u201d The IRGC and the State Security Force (SSF) killed over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-november-2019-uprising-and-its-amplifications\/\">1500 protesters<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe regime refused to announce how many protesters were gunned down, and its officials have been trying to downplay the number of martyrs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran protests 2019 news update: security forces open fire on demonstrators\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_XtXMyXf714M\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FXtXMyXf714M%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XtXMyXf714M\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT9M7S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-11-26T20:30:16Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_XtXMyXf714M\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FXtXMyXf714M%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran protests 2019 news update: security forces open fire on demonstrators<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XtXMyXf714M\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FXtXMyXf714M%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran protests 2019 news update: security forces open fire on demonstrators\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"#IranProtests Reporting by PMOI\/MEK Iran, November 2019\u2014During the protests that erupted in Iran after a government-imposed fuel price hike, security forces brutally beat and shot demonstrators. Due to a near-total shutdown of internet services, the crackdown on the protests had remained hidden. As internet connectivity is gradually being restored, we&#039;re receiving new footage from the protests. In many cities, protesters are chanting slogans agains Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Iranian regime. There have also been many cases where demonstrators have set fire to the vehicles and buildings of security forces as well as banks and other financial insitutions which symbolize Iran&#039;s government corruption. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLqrxnz6Vvh404YFXs_1SL_krJ2JRfvLfg\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In June 2020, Mojtaba Zolnouri, the current head of the parliament\u2019s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, claimed: \u201c230 were killed during the November incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Before Zoulnouri, the regime\u2019s Minister of Interior, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, announced around 250 were killed during the Iran protests. Like Zoulnouri, who blatantly claimed \u201c52 of those killed were security forces,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-iran-protest\/mullahs-interior-minister-covers-up-crimes-against-humanity-tried-desperately-to-minimize-the-number-of-november-uprising-martyrs\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Rahmani Fazli<\/a> also said: \u201cSome 40 to 45 people were killed with unofficial and unregistered guns,\u201d trying to shift the blame on a third party and yet justifying the regime\u2019s brutal suppression of protesters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rahmani Fazli is the same person who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iran-regime-downplays-its-crimes-during-the-nationwide-november-protests\/\" rel=\"noopener\">defended<\/a> the regime\u2019s imposing an internet blackout during the uprising to prevent the outside world from knowing what was happening in Iran.<br \/>\n\u201cThey say Rahmani shut down the internet on those days. I surely did because they were commanding and training [people] through the internet. Why are people upset? They were looking to start a civil war. As the country\u2019s security officials, we had been tracking their activities; they were planning for months,\u201d Rahmani said, adding, \u201cthe fuel price [hike] sparked this. It had a vast social aspect and field, yet it should have been much larger than this. They wanted to make chaos in the country and turn our country into another Syria. Preserving [the regime\u2019s] security is our priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Although the regime could oppress people in November 2019, the social dissent remains as fire under ashes. \u201cWe are in such a situation that at any point, this fire under ashes may rise. The November 2019 incidents will not leave Iranian people\u2019s memory,\u201d wrote the state-run Arman daily on May 19, 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, in a video clip circulating on social media, Mahmoud Sadeghi, a former member of parliament, acknowledged the regime&rsquo;s security forces killed innocent protesters during the major Iran protests in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":237505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[194,276,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-237504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-protests","8":"tag-protests-nov-2019","9":"tag-iran-human-rights","10":"tag-iran"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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