In a speech today on Khomeini’s 33rd death anniversary, current Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei said the “enemies are triggering unrest in Iran to overthrow the Islamic Republic,” referring to ten-day-long protests over the collapse of a building in Abadan in southwestern Iran last month that killed 41 people.
Advertisement
Khomeini’s death on June 3, 1989, was a big relief for the Iranian people who had experienced a decade of brutal repression following the 1979 revolution. In the 1980s, thousands of opponents were tortured and executed.
In the summer of 1988, based on Khomeini’s fatwa, 30,000 political prisoners were executed for being steadfast in their support for the Iranian opposition group, the MEK.
For Khamenei’s speech today, the regime had assembled 20,000 forces to secure the area, and the IRGC commander Hossein Salami personally supervised the “security operation.”
The reason for this huge number of security forces is that the network affiliated with the MEK, known as the Resist ..
Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
