A uncommon Iranian joint intelligence report claims arrested journalists who reported on Mahsa Amini’s dying have been educated by the US overseas.
Tehran, Iran– Tehran and Washington are clashing once more over weeks-long protests in Iran as america is organising a gathering of the United Nations Safety Council over the unrest that erupted after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died within the custody of morality police final month.
The US and Albania – one other main critic of the Iranian authorities – will maintain an off-the-cuff UNSC gathering on Wednesday, as first reported by Reuters and likewise confirmed by Iranian state media.
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and Iranian-born actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi – whom the Iranian state considers to be anti-establishment – will converse on the assembly, together with UN investigator on human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, in line with Reuters. Different UN member states and rights teams can reportedly attend the assembly as nicely.
However whereas the outlet cited a word outlining the occasion as saying the assembly will “spotlight the continued repression of girls and ladies and members of non secular and ethnic teams in Iran”, Tehran has supplied a distinct account.
The Iranian authorities’s web site, IRNA, on Saturday, cited unnamed “diplomatic sources” as saying Washington is organising the assembly in response to a uncommon joint report by the Iranian intelligence ministry and the intelligence division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) late on Friday that blamed the US as the principle wrongdoer behind the protests.
“As a substitute of responding to the factors raised within the Iranian intelligence group, the US is fleeing ahead and exhibiting selective help for human rights with particular political objectives,” the supply was quoted as saying.
Iran’s mission to the UN made the identical level in an announcement referring to the US because the “prime suspect of the riots” in Iran.
“The US and its allies have persistently taken benefit of such a platform (the UN) to advance their political agendas, even on the expense of violating worldwide guidelines and the UN Constitution,” it stated, accusing Washington of double requirements in supporting Iranians.
Girls and ethnic Kurd and Baluch populations have featured prominently within the protests.
The commander of the elite IRGC warned protesters on Saturday towards taking to the streets. “Don't come to the streets! Right this moment is the final day of the riots,” Hossein Salami stated, in line with Reuters.
Iran’s prime authorities, together with Supreme Chief Ali Hosseini Khamenei, have publicly blamed the US, Israel and others as being the orchestrators of unrest throughout the nation, throughout which many dozens are thought to have been killed, with extra injured or arrested.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Friday voiced concern and urged the Iranian authorities to handle the “official grievances of the inhabitants” whereas condemning “all incidents which have resulted in dying or severe damage to protesters”.
What’s within the Iranian intelligence report?
The prolonged joint intelligence report that Tehran claims has motivated the upcoming UNSC assembly paints an image of accounts that inform Iranian authorities’ stance on the protests.
In response to the report, the US and a few of its allies had deliberate – and delayed – unrest comparable to what's occurring throughout Iran proper now for a very long time, and had designs for various phases previous to, throughout and following such unrest.
The Central Intelligence Company (CIA) has been on the forefront of the US efforts and has been aided by the intelligence providers of Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UK and different international locations, it asserted, citing “fully credible” info.
The Iranian intelligence group claimed the US has spent billions of dollars over time to create a community of sympathetic organisations and people, holding many gatherings and programs to show “hybrid wars and gentle overthrow” of the Iranian institution.
These all-paid programs, it stated, have been held in Italy, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates amongst others, with or with out the data of these international locations’ governments.
The report makes use of the initials of two feminine Iranian journalists, whom it says have been “educated by the programs of the US mafia regime in overseas international locations” and “performed the function of being the primary sources to fabricate information for overseas media” on developments regarding Amini that led to the protests.
The reporters accused by Iranian intelligence are Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who have been arrested shortly after protests broke out final month and stay imprisoned in Evin jail in Tehran. Hamedi was among the many first to report on Amini’s dying on the hospital, whereas Mohammadi travelled to Amini’s hometown of Saqqez to report on her funeral.
The intelligence report additionally alleges that CIA officers met with Kurdish separatist teams in neighbouring Iraq’s northern Erbil area in late September to ask them to amplify their function in Iran’s unrest. The IRGC in late September and early October repeatedly pounded positions in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish area to punish the “terrorist teams” it stated have been based mostly there.
International-based Persian-language tv channels, which Tehran blacklisted this week, and social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram, which have been banned, have been additionally featured within the intelligence report as being influenced and manipulated by Washington in its efforts to counter the Iranian state.
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