{"id":8818,"date":"2010-09-03T01:03:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T00:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/8818-iran-regime-official-threatens-protestors-with-use-of-force"},"modified":"2023-01-13T19:43:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:43:12","slug":"iran-regime-official-threatens-protestors-with-use-of-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-regime-official-threatens-protestors-with-use-of-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Regime official threatens protestors with use of force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"mesbah-yazdi\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-35742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/09\/mesbah-yazdi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mesbah Yazdi\" width=\"150\" height=\"206\" align=\"right\" \/>NCRI &#8211; A member of the Iranian regime\u2019s Assembly of Experts expressed worries on Wednesday about the potential of further popular protests against the clerical regime, and warned, \u201cAnyone who intends to incite unrest must be confronted with force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the state-run Parliament News, while speaking at a mosque in the city of Qom, mullah Mesbah Yazdi said, \u201cIf some seek to create unrest or stage a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, then they must be confronted using force. \u2026 Talk of freedom, democracy and human rights would not be relevant in such cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yazd said those who \u201cappear on streets and shout\u201d do not deserve to be talked to. \u201cThey are mohareb [enemies of God] and the sentence for a mohareb is hanging or amputation of legs and hands or exile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe enemies seek to harm and eliminate the velayat-e faqih [absolute clerical rule],\u201d Yazdi added, referring to the Iranian regime\u2019s founding principle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; A member of the Iranian regime&rsquo;s Assembly of Experts expressed worries on Wednesday about the potential of further popular protests against the clerical regime, and warned, &ldquo;Anyone who intends to incite unrest must be confronted with force.&rdquo; According to the state-run Parliament News, while speaking at a mosque in the city of Qom, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-8818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-human-rights","tag-updated"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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