Unusually, schoolgirls in Iran have also joined these protests. Which is happening in different cities after the death of a woman in custody for violating the Hijab law.
In a video verified by the BBC, teenage girls in uniform can be seen waving their scarves in the air, raising slogans against clerics and officials.
For the last two weeks, demonstrations have been taking place in different parts of the country.
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Girls without hijabs in the city of Karaj expelled a man suspected of being a local government official from their school on Monday. In the footage, she is chanting “Shame on you” and empty water bottles are also being thrown at the man. The person walks out of a school after school. The man later walks out of one of the doors of the school.
Protesting students, chasing away an #Iranian official from their school, shouting: Shame on you…October 3rd… #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/eFmRhvaN2H
— Rana Rahimpour (@ranarahimpour) October 3, 2022
Karaj is located just west of the capital Tehran. In another video from there, students can be seen and heard shouting, saying: ‘If we don’t unite, they will kill us one by one. ‘Dozens of schoolgirls blocked traffic on a main road in the southern city of Shiraz on Monday. And took off the scarves from their heads and waved them in the air shouting ‘Amar Marda Bad’. The gesture was apparently directed at Supreme Leader Ayat Ullah Ali Khamenei, who has ultimate control over all affairs of the state.
More schoolgirl demonstrations were reported in Tehran and the northwestern cities of Saqqez and Sanandaj on Tuesday.
Several students took pictures in their classrooms without covering their heads. Some were pointing obscenely at pictures of Ayat Ullah Ali Khamenei and the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, with their middle fingers.
The first reaction from Iran’s supreme leader about protests over the death of #MahsaAmini was loaded with warnings of escalation, yet the protests themselves spread to secondary schools today with some schoolgirls making a point about how they felt towards the supreme leader. pic.twitter.com/ya2MPr15b4
— Siavash Ardalan (@BBCArdalan) October 4, 2022
The schoolgirl protests began after Ayatollah Khamenei, who holds the final say on all state affairs, broke his silence on the unrest, blaming the unrest on Iran’s staunch enemies, the United States and Israel.
Source: BBC
