A sister of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on national protests and known as at the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to put down their guns, in line with a letter posted via way of means of her France-primarily based totally son. Iran has been gripped via way of means of unrest because the demise of 22-year-antique Kurdish Iranian girl Mahsa Amini in police custody on Sept 16., and is dealing with a three-day popular strike motion which began out on Monday.
Badri Hosseini Khamenei, who is living in Iran, criticised the clerical established order beginning from the time of the Islamic Republic’s past due founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to her brother’s rule, the letter, dated “December 2022”, said. I assume it’s far suitable now to claim that I oppose my brother’s moves and I specific my sympathy with all moms mourning the crimes of the Islamic Republic, from the
time of Khomeini to the present day technology of the despotic caliphate of Ali Khamenei,” she wrote withinside the letter which changed into shared on Wednesday via way of means of her son Mahmoud Moradkhani’s Twitter account. Ali Khamenei’s Revolutionary Guards and mercenaries have to lay down their guns as quickly as feasible and be part of the human beings earlier than it’s far too past due, the letter said.
The Revolutionary Guards are Iran’s elite pressure which has helped the country’s set up proxies throughout the Middle East, and runs a great enterprise empire. In November, Khamenei’s activist daughter Farideh Moradkhani changed into arrested via way of means of government after calling on overseas governments to reduce all ties with Tehran. -Reuters