Khamenei accuses US, Israel of fomenting \u2018riots\u2019 in Iran
\nTEHREAN
\nIranian students have clashed with security forces at a top Tehran university amid the wave of unrest sparked by the death of a young woman in the custody of the country\u2019s morality police, state media and rights groups have said.
\nPublic anger has flared since authorities announced on September 16 the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been held for allegedly wearing a hijab headscarf in an improper way.
\nConcern grew over violence at Sharif University of Technology overnight where riot police confronted hundreds of students, using tear gas and paintball and carrying weapons that shoot non-lethal steel pellets, local media reported on Monday.
\n\u201cWoman, life, liberty,\u201d students shouted, as well as \u201cstudents prefer death to humiliation\u201d, the Iranian Mehr news agency reported, adding that the country\u2019s science minister later came to speak to the students in an effort to calm the situation.
\nThe Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights posted video apparently showing Iranian police on motorcycles pursuing running students in an underground car park and, in a separate clip, taking away detainees whose heads were covered in black cloth bags.
\nIn other footage, shooting and screaming can be heard as large numbers of people run down a street at night, in footage AFP news agency has not independently verified.
\n\u201cSecurity forces have attacked Sharif University in Tehran tonight. Shooting can be heard,\u201d IHR said in a Twitter message on Sunday.
\nIn another video clip, a crowd of people can be heard chanting: \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid! Don\u2019t be afraid! We are all together!\u201d IHR said the footage was taken at Shariati metro station in the capital Tehran on Sunday.
\nThe New York-based group Centre for Human Rights in Iran said it was \u201cextremely concerned by videos coming out of Sharif University and Tehran today showing violent repression of protests + detainees being hauled away with their heads completely covered in fabric\u201d.
\nMehr news agency said that \u201cSharif University of Technology announced that due to recent events and the need to protect students…all classes will be held virtually from Monday\u201d.
\nThe death of Amini has sparked Iran\u2019s biggest wave of protests in almost three years.
\nSince the unrest started on September 16, dozens of protesters have been killed and more than a thousand arrested. Members of the security forces have been among those killed.
\nMeanwhile, Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday accused arch-foes the United States and Israel of fomenting unrest in the Islamic republic following the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.
\n\u201cI say clearly that these riots and the insecurity were engineered by America and the occupying, false Zionist regime, as well as their paid agents, with the help of some traitorous Iranians abroad,\u201d he said in his first public comment on the unrest sparked by Amini\u2019s death.
\n\u201cThe death of the young woman broke our hearts, but what is not normal is that some people, without proof or an investigation, have made the streets dangerous, burned the Holy Quran, removed hijabs from veiled women and set fire to mosques and cars,\u201d the supreme leader added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Khamenei accuses US, Israel of fomenting \u2018riots\u2019 in Iran TEHREAN Iranian students have clashed with security forces at a top Tehran university amid the wave of unrest sparked by the death of a young woman in the custody of the country\u2019s morality police, state media and rights groups have said. Public anger has flared since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n