{"id":266721,"date":"2022-11-15T18:43:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T17:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=266721"},"modified":"2023-02-07T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:57:45","slug":"iranian-uprisings-60-day-milestone-marked-by-first-death-sentence-new-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iranian-uprisings-60-day-milestone-marked-by-first-death-sentence-new-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Uprising\u2019s 60-Day Milestone Marked by First Death Sentence, New Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran\u2019s nationwide anti-government uprising has now been continuously ongoing for more than 60 days. During that time, there has been little substantive change in the behavior of either the clerical regime or the protesters seeking its overthrow. But the two-month milestone has been marked by the announcement of the first death sentence issued for a protester, as well as by a new round of strikes on Kurdish<\/a> areas of neighboring Iraq.<\/p>\n

The uprising began in mid-September following the death of the 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, at the hands of Tehran\u2019s \u201cmorality police.\u201d The early involvement of communities in and around her native Saqqez has led authorities to conflate the movement for accountability.<\/p>\n

The same authorities publicly insist that protests in other areas are the product of a conspiracy. Meanwhile, Iran\u2019s leading pro-democracy opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization, has credited its network of \u201cResistance Units<\/a>\u201d with organizing and unifying much of the unrest across more than 200 localities.<\/p>\n

The PMOI and its parent coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, have actually been critical of Western powers over the seeming absence of meaningful support for the domestic protest movement. In various statements, the coalition and its political allies have urged the United States and the European Union to sever existing ties with the Iranian regime and to publicly affirm the rights of the Iranian people to defend themselves against repression and to pursue an autonomous change of government.<\/p>\n

The appeals for formal rights of self-defense have arguably become more urgent in the face of the recently-announced death sentence, which promises to be the first of many. The PMOI estimates that approximately 30,000 protesters have been arrested since the uprising began, in addition to the 550 or so who have been killed outright by security forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a>. Earlier this month, 227 of the 290 members of Iran\u2019s parliament voted in favor of imposing capital sentences on those whom authorities accuse of leading \u201criots\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Iran protests round-up\u2014Day 59 | November 13, 2022<\/div><\/div>
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