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By: Alejo Vidal-Quadras<\/strong><\/p>\n Iran\u2019s regime President Ebrahim Raisi only vaguely alluded to ongoing protests in Iran when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. Even then, he did so for the sole purpose of casting aspersions on his Western adversaries and implying that they were taking advantage of an incident that was still \u201cbeing investigated\u201d. Those remarks came only a few days after an interview with CBS<\/a> News in which Raisi suggested that investigations were also necessary to ascertain whether or not the Holocaust happened. That tells you something about the value of investigations of Iran\u2019s theocratic regime.<\/p>\n In reality, there is nothing more to investigate regarding the incident that sparked the ongoing protests. Last week, Iran\u2019s so-called morality police<\/a> violently arrested a young woman named Mahsa Amini because she was allegedly wearing her mandatory head covering too loosely. Shortly after the arrest, she was transported to the hospital after falling into a coma, and within three days she was dead. Authorities attempted to keep her family from viewing the body and urged them to bury her under cover of darkness. But eyewitnesses observed her being physically beaten in the van that transported her to be \u201cconvinced and educated\u201d, after which her fellow detainees were heard shouting, \u201cThey have killed somebody!\u201d<\/p>\n As shocking as these reports are, it is even more shocking that Ebrahim Raisi was not only permitted to address the UN General Assembly just five days after Amini\u2019s death but enjoyed the attention of fellow attendees. The delegates demonstrated either ignorance or disregard for Raisi\u2019s culpability for the high-profile killing, as well as his illegitimacy in the eyes of the vast majority of Iranians. But considering that international media have provided ample coverage of the protests that are considered the fiercest and most widespread since those sparked by water shortages last year, ignorance is unlikely.<\/p>\n September 23 – Tehran, #Iran<\/a> — People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) September 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
Massive crowd of locals continued the nationwide protests against the regime on the 8th night of the uprising.#IranProtests2022<\/a> #MahsaAmini<\/a>#\u0645\u0647\u0633\u0627_\u0627\u0645\u06cc\u0646\u06cc<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/c4pU2RfhnM<\/a><\/p>\n