The irreversible process of the new revolution has begun in Iran, Shirin Ebadi

Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian Nobel Prize laureate, says that the flames of protests that erupted in Iran after the death of the Kurdish woman Mehsa Amini have taken the form of an irreversible revolution that will eventually lead to the end of the current Islamic Republic. He expressed these views in a recent phone interview to the news agency Reuters.

Shirin Ebadi, who has lived in London since her exile in 2009, has been a staunch critic of the Iranian government and an outspoken supporter of anti-government protests. Like others and critics of the government, he believes that the wave of protests that have erupted since Mehsa Amini’s death is a challenge to the authorities, which has openly questioned the legitimacy of Iran’s prevailing religious establishment. He says, “This revolutionary process is like a train that will not stop before reaching its destination.”

In mid-September last year, Iran’s “moral police” arrested 22-year-old Mehsa Amini in Tehran for allegedly not wearing the hijab properly. They then took her to the police station, where she slipped into a coma. Three days later on September 16, Mehsa Amini died in the hospital. Since his death, Iran’s religious rulers have faced widespread protests.

In their defense, authorities have claimed that Mehsa Amini’s death was due to health problems he had suffered before his arrest, and that the United States and other “hostile Iran countries” were behind recent protests aimed at destabilizing the religious establishment. Alleged to be driven.

Iranian authorities have also taken drastic measures to suppress these protests and have so far executed at least four people linked to the protests over Mehsa Amini’s death and sentenced several others to death. On the other hand, human rights organizations and activists say that these government measures are aimed at intimidating people and preventing them from taking to the streets to protest.

In the protests that have been going on for several months now, people are taking to the streets to chant slogans against Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and demand the end of the current religious establishment. This long series of protests around the world is also seen as an expression of years of anger among the Iranian people due to economic problems, ethnic discrimination against minorities and strict social and political restrictions. Protests have decreased.

In this regard, Shirin Ebadi says that the violence by the Iranian state will further increase the anger among the people against the religious establishment because the government has not yet taken any action regarding their complaints. According to him, this protest, which has been going on for several months, has taken a different form, but this process has not yet come to an end.

Western countries must take “practical steps” to end the rule of the religious establishment in Iran, says Shirin Ebadi. For example, recalling its ambassadors from Iran and limiting its political relations with Tehran. He has also urged Western governments not to agree to any other deal with Iran, including the long-stalled 2015 nuclear deal.