{"id":264101,"date":"2022-09-20T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=264101"},"modified":"2023-02-06T22:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T21:44:45","slug":"irans-state-media-and-their-failed-attempt-to-cover-up-mahsa-aminis-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/irans-state-media-and-their-failed-attempt-to-cover-up-mahsa-aminis-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s State Media and Their Failed Attempt To Cover Up Mahsa Amini\u2019s Murder\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Protests erupted in Iran on September 16 following the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini<\/a> by the regime\u2019s morality police. Mahsa\u2019s murder has caused a lot of stir in the regime and its state media.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mahsa, a 22-years-old girl from Saqqez in Kurdistan province, was arrested on September 13 in Tehran under the pretext of being \u201cimproperly veiled,\u201d and according to eyewitnesses, was severely beaten by the police. She went into a coma, and her picture in the hospital\u2019s ICU became viral. Mahsa\u2019s death embodied the Iranian women\u2019s suffering under the ruling theocracy in the past 43 years. It triggered protests in Iran’s volatile society, where people suffer from the country\u2019s economic crunch due to the regime’s corruption and ineptitude, as well as four decades of oppression. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s state media, particularly those of the so-called “reformists,” have warned about the consequences of ongoing protests while trying to sell this fabrication to the public that Mahsa “died suspiciously” and whitewash the regime’s security forces. Yet, their acknowledgments tell the regime’s current situation and failure to contain Iran’s explosive society. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Officials refrain from showing the slightest flexibility in the face of domestic and international issues. They claim by taking one step backward, we should continue backing down from our positions and lose our hegemony,” the state-run <\/span>Etemad daily wrote<\/span><\/a> on September 19.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Iranian youth were trained in our schools and raised while listening to official learning methods and lessons. If officials consider these young men and women to be norm breakers, shouldn’t we doubt our educational system first?” <\/span>Etemad daily wrote<\/span><\/a> in another piece on September 19.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“When you tell the Iranian women to wear what I, as the ruler, say, they naturally ask what this so-called Islamic State has achieved for us as human beings and half of Iran’s population that our outfit should represent and preserve it?” Etemad wrote. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In an article on Tuesday, the state-run Mostaghel daily<\/a> acknowledged why people do not believe in the CCTV footage of Mahsa apparently collapsing in police custody without being touched.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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