Protests in the two-million metropolis of Karaj (Iranian province of Alborz): On Wednesday evening, a demonstrator, surrounded by people and without a headscarf, stands on an overturned garbage can and raises her fist to the sky

DLNews Crime against women:

Protests against the mullahs' headscarf repression continue.

Tehran - It's a fight against the headscarf. A war against state oppression. A battle for freedom. But anyone who questions the Iranian mullah regime's religious dress codes faces death.

Mahsa Amini (22) was arrested on September 13 on the street in the capital, Tehran, for dressing "un-Islamically." The Iranian with Kurdish roots was on her way to a family reunion. On the spot, the young woman was brutally beaten in a police vehicle. A short time later, Mahsa Amini collapsed at a police station and fell into a coma. She died three days later in the hospital due to a skull injury and a brain hemorrhage.

Women hold up the portrait of Mahsa Amini († 22). The Morality Police in Tehran arrested the tragic icon of the protest movement on September 13 for allegedly dressing "un-Islamically." Amini died in police custody three days later.

Her death has become a signal against despotism in the Islamic Republic. Since then, courageous women have been taking to the streets in Tehran every day. Tearing off their hijab – the headscarf – waving it like a lasso or burning it straight away. At home, they cut their hair in protest. They rage "Down with the dictator" and mean the "Supreme Leader" of Iran: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (83).

- An Iranian soldier fired a rifle at protesters in Tehran last Sunday

His Revolutionary Guards want to nip the emerging resistance in the bud. Civil disobedience is spreading like wildfire. The feared members of the paramilitary Basij militias. They like to dash through the streets on their mopeds and spread fear, strike as usual. But suddenly, the attacked women fight back and are protected by the crowd, and men have now also joined the protests.

In more than 80 cities, people have taken to the streets in the past two weeks. The harsh response of those in power: commanders of the Revolutionary Guards call on their troops to act "without mercy, with the greatest severity - even if there are deaths - against the demonstrators and anti-revolutionaries." It is shot sharply.

The bloody interim result: According to Iranian state television, at least 41 people died in the protests until yesterday. The human rights organization "Iran Human Rights" assumes that more than 83 people have been killed - including four children. In addition, several thousand people, including one German and eight other foreign nationals, were arrested. They all have to fear for their lives in the Iranian torture prisons.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (61) warned in a television interview on Wednesday that anyone taking part in the "unrest" must expect a "decisive" reaction. After all, that is "the demand of the people."

The role models of the masses see it differently. The Iranian singer Schwerwin Hajipur released a protest song and was promptly arrested. The Iran national soccer team dressed in black jackets listened to the national anthem in solidarity with the protests before a friendly match in Senegal. And football-mad Iranians are calling on the world governing body Fifa to block their country for the forthcoming World Cup in Qatar.