{"id":254481,"date":"2022-01-17T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T19:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=254481"},"modified":"2023-02-02T07:48:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:48:32","slug":"iran-regimes-deputy-interior-minister-warns-of-uprisings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iran-regimes-deputy-interior-minister-warns-of-uprisings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Regime\u2019s Deputy Interior Minister Warns of Uprisings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cPeople are becoming more interested to hold street protests<\/a>,\u201d warned Taghi Rostamvandi, the Iranian regime\u2019s Deputy Interior Minister, admitting the explosive state of society.<\/p>\n

As protests by Iranians from all walks of life continue to spread across the country due to the economic and social woes, regime officials and state media can no longer pretend that the situation is normal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe index of people\u2019s desire to protest is very important. We should conduct a socio-political assessment when people come on to the streets showing intense forms of protests because those protests will break the norms,\u201d Rostamvandi acknowledged on January 16, according to the state-run Iran Press website.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe public\u2019s patience is wearing very thin as economic<\/a>-financial pressures continue to mount. We should also sound the alarm as more people are leaning toward a secular government due to ineptitude or mismanagement. This is very dangerous,\u201d Rostamvandi said, referring to people\u2019s growing hatred toward the regime and their growing calls for a secular government.<\/p>\n

Since hijacking the revolution in 1979, Iran\u2019s ruling theocracy has been using religion to justify its atrocities. The mullahs have been using Friday prayers\u2019 sermons and mosques to spread their propaganda and defend their reactionary interpretation of Islam, which Iran\u2019s vibrant society, mainly youths, has rejected.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unacceptable that central mosques in cities fail to hold daily prayers. The blame lays on you people. The prayer leaders complain that we go to mosques, but people do not show up. This is not the path of the [regime]. We have had achievements, such as victory in [Iran-Iraq] war,\u201d Ahmadreza Shahrokhi, the Friday Prayer leader of Khorramabad said on January 14, according to the state TV.<\/p>\n

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