Emmanuel Macron received, Friday, November 11, in Paris Iranian women, whose “ revolution they are leading “.
” We welcomed with great honor and pleasure a delegation of Iranian women “, declared the French president during the Paris forum on peace. ” I really want to tell them again our respect and our admiration in the context of the revolution they are leading. “, he added.
According to the Élysée, the delegation was made up of Masih Alinejad, an Iranian activist based in New York who encourages Iranian women to protest against the obligation to wear the veil, Shima Babaei, who is fighting for information about her father whose she is without news, Ladan Boroumand, co-founder of a rights organization based in Washington, and Roya Piraie. Emmanuel Macron had affirmed in mid-October that France stood ” alongside Iranian demonstrators. To which Tehran had denounced a ” interference “.
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At least 304 people killed since protests began
A protest movement erupted in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, on September 16, three days after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police who accused her of breaking the strict dress code requiring women to wear the veil in public. As the days passed, protests for women’s freedom morphed into a movement directed against the religious regime, which faces a challenge not seen since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In total, according to the Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR), at least 304 people have been killed in the crackdown on protests across Iran since September 16.
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(with AFP)