Iranian top brass holds emergency meeting to address wave of protests
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, Majlis Speaker Mohamad Baqer Qalibaf and Judiciary Chief Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejei have held an emergency meeting to discuss a response to the wave of protests that have been rocking the country for weeks over the death of young Mahsa Amini in custody for improperly wearing the veil.
During the meeting, reported by the Iranian Presidency in a statement carried by ISNA, the three leaders agreed that "security and peace in the country is the basis for all kinds of economic activities and business of the people".
All of them, following the official line from the beginning of the demonstrations, blamed the unrest on the hidden hand of "regional enemies who consider a unified and powerful Iran as a threat to their interests".
Thousands of people have again taken to the streets of several Iranian cities to protest against the authorities at the beginning of the fourth week of demonstrations sparked by the death of the young Kurdish-Iranian woman.
The official Iranian news agency IRNA has confirmed that the riots -- caused by "organised opposition groups against the government", according to the authorities' narrative -- have been repeated again last night in the streets of Tehran, while Kurdish media have highlighted that the protests are spreading to areas where this ethnic group is the majority, such as Sanandaj, in the Iranian province of Kurdistan.
Iranian authorities are also investigating an act of electronic hacking against the Iranian state television channel IRIB.
