Ayatollah Khomeini’s niece urges ‘conscious’ governments to cut ties with Iran regime

The niece of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, has urged governments to cut ties with Tehran over its suppression of anti-regime protests.

Farideh Moradkhani, the ayatollah’s niece, called on the “conscientious people of the world” to support the protesters and pressure their governments to distance themselves from Iran.

“I ask the conscientious people of the world to join us and ask their governments not to react with empty words and slogans, but with real actions and to stop any dealings with this regime,” he said in a video released by his brother after his arrest on November 23.

Moradkhani’s family has long opposed Khomeini, and her arrest makes her the closest living relative of the supreme leader he has imprisoned. She has been arrested on two previous occasions for activism.

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Anti-regime protests have been ongoing for three months following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in police custody for allegedly breaking the country’s hijab (headscarf) laws.

Farideh Moradkhani, the niece of Ayatollah Khomeini, spoke out against her uncle and his regime in a video posted by her brother online.
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The Iranian government has responded to the protests with the utmost severity: security forces have used live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas to try to suppress the demonstrations.

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The country’s foreign ministry said it would not cooperate with any UN fact-finding mission to investigate the government’s response after the Human Rights Council voted to appoint an independent investigator.

Iran protests on video via The Foreign Desk
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At least 451 people have died, including 63 minors, and 18,173 more have been arrested since the protests began, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency.

Last week, Iranian courts began handing down death sentences for protesters, citing arson and other crimes to justify the executions.

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Protesters set fire to a museum dedicated to the regime’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in a very direct act of defiance against the nation’s ruler.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.