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Farideh Moradkhani, the niece of Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, calls on international community to support Iranians.
She compares her uncle to Hitler and Mussolini.
She says Iranians will overthrow the Islamic Republic.
Her uncle has had her arrested in the past. pic.twitter.com/htjyBsnMc7
— Yashar Ali 🐘 یاشار (@yashar) November 27, 2022
A sure sign of the Iranian regime’s disarray and loss of support: even a close relative of the Supreme Leader – his niece Farideh Moradkhani –now openly calls his regime “murderous and child-killing” in an online video uploaded by her brother on Saturday, Nov. 26, after her previous arrest by the regime on unclear charges. More on this act of great bravery can be found in a preliminary report at Jihad Watch here and in a full report here: “Khamenei’s niece slams Iran’s ‘child-killing regime’ in video,” Times of Israel, November 27, 2022:
Farideh Moradkhani comes from a branch of the family that has a record of opposition to Iran’s clerical leadership and has herself been jailed previously in the country.
Her brother Mahmoud Moradkhani wrote on Twitter that she was arrested on Wednesday after going to the office of the prosecutor following a summons.
Then on Saturday, her brother posted a video on YouTube, with the link shared on Twitter, in which she condemned the “clear and obvious oppression” Iranians have been subjected to, and criticized the international community’s inaction.
In uploading his sister’s video, her brother Mahmoud Moradkhani also took a great risk, and no doubt when the vindictive regime gets done putting his sister on trial for a second time, handing down a long prison sentence for the “treason” of her video appearance, it will swiftly turn to him and sentence him, too, as her accomplice, to a long prison sentence.
Here is what she said on her video:
“Free people, be with us! Tell your governments to stop supporting this murderous and child-killing regime.”
“This regime is not loyal to any of its religious principles and does not know any law or rule except force and maintaining its power in any way possible.”
It was not clear when the video had been recorded.
She complained that the sanctions imposed against the regime over its crackdown were “laughable” and said Iranians had been left “alone” in their fight for freedom.
It Is unclear what further sanctions on Iranian leaders, both clerics and IRGC commander could now be imposed.
Moradkhani is the daughter of Khamenei’s sister Badri, who fell out with her family in the 1980s and fled to Iraq at the peak of the war with Iran’s neighbor. She joined her husband, the dissident cleric Ali Tehrani.
Both Moradkhani’s mother, the niece of Ayatollah Khamenei, and her father, Ali Tehrani, were dissidents from the first years of the new regime. Dissidence is in her blood, but now it has reached another level, one of open hatred and contempt for the regime.
Moradkhani has gained prominence as an anti-death penalty activist and was last arrested in January this year.
That arrest came after an October 2021 video conference in which she lavishly praised Farah Diba, the widow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who was ousted by the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said she was released on bail in April and her arrest last Wednesday was [for her]to begin serving an existing 15-year sentence.
Moradkhani’s disaffection with the regime and with her uncle, the Supreme Leader, is now total. She had previously maddened the regime by heaping praise on that representative of the Shah’s regime, the former Shahbanou, Farah Diba, in a video conference a year ago. And for years Moradkhani has made loudly known her opposition to the death penalty. It’s unclear if her arrest this past January was a response to her campaign against capital punishment, or to her praise of Farah Diba. Very likely both contributed to her arrest; she was an embarrassment, precisely because of her close relationship to the Supreme Leader. She needed to be silenced.
In Farideh Moradkhani’s video, just uploaded by her brother, she stirringly denounces the regime and makes a direct appeal to the outside world to heed the cries of the Iranian protesters, to cut all ties to Iran and impose whatever sanctions on the country that have not already been imposed: ”Free people, be with us! Tell your governments to stop supporting this murderous and child-killing regime.” This latest uploaded video will no doubt result in an additional 10-15 years added to her current 15-year sentence. For a frail middle-aged woman, 25-30 years in the famously harsh Evin Prison will be a death sentence.
Farideh and her brother are not the only close relatives of Iranian leaders who have turned on the regime. Ayatollah Khomeini’s son Abdel died of a drug overdose at the age of 50 in 1995; drugs were his way out of a wretched reality — created by his father – that he found intolerable. The daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was charged with “propaganda activity against the system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and blasphemy,” Iran’s judiciary announced on July 3, 2022. An indictment for the arrest of Faezeh Hashemi, a 59-year-old former lawmaker and rights activist, has been issued, but it was not reported whether she had been taken into custody.
The charges reportedly stem from comments Hashemi made during a social media forum in April. She was reported to have said that Iran’s insistence that the United States remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps from its list of terrorist organizations was “damaging” to Iran’s national interests.
When the nieces and nephews and sons and daughters of those at the very top – including relatives of Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khamenei, and President Rafsanjani – demonstrate such disaffection, despair, and rage, this surely means that the regime’s foundations are beginning to weaken. The Iranian protesters continue nationwide, constantly increasing in size and vehemence, not at all deterred by the regime’s use of live fire, and now shouting not “Woman Freedom Life,” but more menacingly, “Down with the Supreme Leader!” How long can such a regime cling to power?
What can a subject in a notoriously corrupt, pro-Iranian country like the U.S. do to heed this brave woman’s call? What specific steps can we take, even if they are only tiny steps?
You seem to forget something,Lightbringer. The regime screams “Death to America” often. That pretty much tells you it’s stand towards us. That and it’s long history of terrorism against the U.S. would bear that out. That there would be people within the administration that wants a deal,ANY sort of deal,with a government like that,tells me that we’re being lead by fools. Fools who dismiss all that prior history just to get a deal,ANY deal that they want,no matter the consequences.
Oh yes, gradual progress, another 40 years maybe? This psychotic regime of child murderers and jihad need to go now, it should be anathema to the rest of the world. You do realize tens of thousands of mostly young people have been arrested and are having death sentences pronounced on them, now, as you praise the regime for ending morality police? It’s the regular security forces shooting kids in the head, but nice try. I’m sure the arrested and condemned appreciate your concern for their murderers and their sincere efforts at Islamic reformation, now that the psychopaths have truly seen the errors of their ways. That was sarcasm.
At least 15,000 possibly as many more, as many as 25,000, have been arrested. Do you want the names of those already sentenced to death? I know at least 10 by name. Of course, if you just rape and beat women to death while they are under arrest (like Nika Shakarami) you don’t have to bother to sentence them to death. Or like Hananeh Kia, just shot in the head on the street.
They protesters are being charged with “crimes against god” that bring the death penalty. The parliament by 227 out of 290 called for “no leniency” for the protestors.
What are you doing for them?
Some members of Sepah have estimated 30,000 have been arrested. The story about the morality police being abolished is incorrect, more dust thrown in everyone’s eyes and the useless NY Times regurgitating it. There is nothing to celebrate until there is actual justice here, the END of the Islamic Republic of Iran. THIS generation has NO use for it whatsoever, They are willing to risk their lives to say so.
I love how in a brutal dictatorship you talk so easily about people deciding to volunteer, especially children who were not of any age to consent to become cannon fodder.
Are you a shill for the Islamic Republic? Those poor policemen….yes it requires “globalists” to incite their violence. Sarcasm.
The protests reflect the will of the real Persian people. The mullahs were recruited back in 79 because western-educated Persians despised the Shah and his vile secret police, the Savak. It was believed that the Shah was installed by the US in 1954, and democratically elected Mossadegh overthrown on Shah Reza Pahlavi’s behalf.
Thus sophisticated and worldly students brought Khomeini from noisy obscurity in Paris to activate the Iranian peasant majority who were still living in the Stone Age in 1979. He promptly did so and before long was executing the worldly Persian student-revolutionaries by firing squad. Also their parents and any prosperous families whose wealth derived from the oil business and the West in general. Gorgeous and worldly Persian women were suddenly shrouded in burkas.
It reminded me of the French Revolution, how it devoured itself. And it was happening fast, right in front of me.
Those Muslim dictators in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran have brought the revolt of the Iranian people against them on themselves by always provoking the people by always oppressing them and treating them worst than dirt.
For that brutal, cruel oppressive malicious and murderous Islamic regime of Iran, which denies the Iranian, people their basic natural human rights.
The Iranian people are right and righteous by engaging in bitter and strong protests against those cruel malicious and murderous tyrants in power of that cruel and oppressive Sharia based dictatorship of that Islamic regime of Iran.
In other words, those vicious despots of that horrendously horrific Islamic regime have provoked the people excessively too far.
This woman is asking the World to help free her from the oppression she feels in her own country while wearing the clothing of which her oppressors demand of her..
If she had taken that black garbage Bag off her head after her nice wee speech I would have given her more of my respect, otherwise she can continue to expect the non islamic world to save her so that she can practice her version of islam..
Go figure.