Iranian regime's interior minister forewarns of further protests

A scene of the Dec 2017-Jan 2018 uprising in Iran

Reported by PMOI/MEK

Iran, July 29, 2019 - Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, the Iranian regime's Minister of Interior, warned of the possible eruption of popular uprisings.

“We shouldn’t neglect, ignore the protests and unrests, and not take preventive measures and proper responses. Any incident could turn into a great event,” Rahmani Fazli said in an interview with the regime’s state-run TV network.

“The enemy attempts to trigger these incidents by imposing sanctions. They have repeatedly said that they should do anything to escalate protests and social unrests. This policy began right after the protests at the beginning of 2018,” he added.

At the end of 2017, protests erupted across Iran. Demonstrations over economic woes quickly turned into anti-regime protests that spread to more than 140 Iranian cities. The regime has constantly attempted to quell the protests through sheer suppression, imprisonment, and torture of protesters and organizers. Various segments of the Iranian society, however, continue to take to the streets and challenge the regime and its apparatus of suppression.