TEHRAN: A footage on social media showed Iranian protesters setting fire to the old home of regime founder Ayatollah Khomeini. Which has been converted into a museum to pay tribute to the architect of the Iranian Revolution that created the Islamic Republic in 1979. Despite strong reprimands, the protest continues.
Remarkable: Protestors in Iran torched the ancestral home (now a museum) of Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the 1979 revolution, in the town of Khomein. pic.twitter.com/ikWMVVfzfM
— Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour) November 18, 2022
Protests in Iran have entered the third month, with hundreds of mourners taking to the streets this week to mark the anniversary of "Bloody November". In 2019, hundreds of people were killed during protests against the hike in fuel prices.
Mahsa Amini, 22, died in September after being detained by Iran's morality police for allegedly violating Iran's strict hijab rules. After which protests started all over the world.
So far, more than 300 people have been killed and thousands detained, according to rights groups. The regime this week sentenced five protesters to death in the name of rioting.
Source: Arab News