Female students in Tehran chanted 'get lost' as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited their university campus on Saturday and condemned protesters enraged by the death of a young woman in custody, activists said.
Thomson ReutersIran President Ebrahim Raisi speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 22.
A video posted on Twitter by the activist 1500tasvir website showed what it said were women students chanting "Raisi get lost" and "Mullahs get lost" as the president visited their campus. Another social media video showed students chanting: "We don't want a corrupt guest," in reference to Raisi.A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in The Hague, Netherlands, on Saturday.
The government has described the protests as a plot by Iran's enemies including the United States, accusing armed dissidents — among others — of violence in which at least 20 members of the security forces have been reported killed.Protests over Mahsa Amini's death threaten Iranian regimeThe mass demonstrations over Mahsa Amini's death in Iranian police custody could create lasting change, say analysts.
But a senior police official repeated the claim by security forces that they did not use live bullets and that the man had been killed by "counter-revolutionaries" , the state news agency IRNA reported.
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