The ax of the repression of the peaceful revolt of Iranians who demand rights and freedom does not look at anyone.
So much so that Farideh Moradkhani, nephew of the Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei, also ends up in handcuffs
who for two months has seen his regime shake under the blows of locks of hair in the wind and courageous and determined protests in every city.
A political and human rights activist, she was arrested in Tehran for supporting the protesters who continue, despite the hundreds of victims and thousands of arrests, to remember Mahsa Amini, the young woman who died in September while in police custody for not having wearing the veil correctly.
According to a tweet from her brother, Mahmoud Moradkhani - also an opponent of the regime who currently lives in France - the 36-year-old woman was "
arrested and taken to jail today when she went to the prosecutor's office to serve a court order
".
The intelligence of the Revolutionary Guards has announced that it has also captured an Iranian-British citizen, accused of being involved in the protests that Tehran judges to be coordinated from abroad to destabilize the country and of being "one of the main links between terrorist networks and dissidents BBC and Iran International".
The Persian-language TV, based in London, has long been the target of threats from the regime - which considers it financed by Saudi Arabia - which have reached it on British soil,
so much so as to force the government of Rishi Sunak to convene the ambassador of Tehran
and to deploy the police around the headquarters of the editorial staff in the capital.
It is not the first time that Khamenei's niece has ended up in prison: the last time she was imprisoned last January after turning to the widow of the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi deposed by the Islamic revolution of 1979, calling her "dear queen".
n the occasion of Farah Diba's 83rd birthday, on October 14, 2021, Farideh had sent a message with a poem dedicated to her: "
Dear Queen and Mother of my homeland!
I know you will come back and bring light to break the darkness of the night ", he said, throwing a challenge to his uncle and the ayatollahs.
A few months before his arrest, he had also launched a campaign in favor of prisoners and against the death penalty.
Locked up in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, known for the brutal conditions of detention of political opponents, she was then released on bail in May.
Farideh is the daughter of Khamenei's sister Badri and Sheikh Ali Moradkhani (known as Ali Teherani) who after the Revolution led by Khomeini in '79 became a dissident and found refuge in Iraq.
Upon his return to Iran he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was released from prison after 10. Ali Teherani died last October in the Iranian capital at the age of 96.