As protests proceed in opposition to the Iranian regime amid studies of executions and murders of girls and activists within the nation, Misah Alinejad, who has lengthy been recognized for opposing Iran’s strict Sharia regulation, posted a video on Twitter detailing the findings.
“Individuals have the best to know whether or not these youngsters of the regime officers went overseas with their very own cash, with the cash of the ‘nice Devil’ US, or with their fathers’ cash,” Alinejad mentioned within the video.
The granddaughter of Ayatollah Yazdi, a cleric who was head of Iran’s Meeting of Specialists till his dying in 2020, is reportedly learning and residing in the USA. Alinejad makes an attempt to contact her within the video, and her husband declines to remark, hanging up on the journalist.
“Cash stolen from us via repression is now within the arms of their youngsters”
Two youngsters of a former well being committee chairman – Ali Nobakht Tehrani – went to highschool within the US, in response to Alinejad’s analysis. Ehsan Nobakht, the son, lives in Washington, whereas daughter Niloufar lives in Los Angeles.
One other notable discovering Alinejad places to the general public on the VOA tv service, which she works for whereas based mostly within the US, was that of the son of former minister of International Affairs of Iran Javad Zarif’s whereabouts.
“Medhi Zarif went to school in New York Metropolis – however there are discrepancies as as to whether it was paid for together with his father’s cash or the [Iranian] individuals’s cash,” Alinejad mentioned.
“There isn’t a document of him working within the US,” she continues, closely implying that actually, it was funded by his father’s cash – who was paid within the authorities function of minister of overseas affairs till July 2021.
The video was launched amid protests, initially sparked by the dying of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who was reportedly killed by Iranian “morality” police after being arrested.
“These aren’t youngsters of unusual individuals like me and also you”
Persevering with together with her publicity of those officers, Alinejad additionally talked about Hassan Rouhani, former president of Iran and father of Maryam Fereydoun. Fereydoun studied at each Columbia College within the US and LSE within the UK, and in response to Alinejad, went to the UN with the Iranian delegation to “inform individuals that girls in Iran haven’t any issues there”.
She has since been working for Deutsche Financial institution, and remains to be based mostly in London. Her brother, Ali, additionally studied within the US, Alinejad mentioned.
Regardless of allegations of hypocrisy made in opposition to them by Iranian individuals throughout protests, and journalists like Alinejad, officers have continued to mount their threats in opposition to these demonstrating and have stepped up retaliation.
A human rights monitor in Iran has reported that two political prisoners, one a singer, are to be put to dying for protesting.
“Some say youngsters of regime officers are unbiased – why blame them for what their mother and father did?” Alinejad mentioned in her video.
“However these aren’t youngsters of unusual individuals like me and also you – they had been despatched overseas by officers. They’ll take pleasure in excessive velocity web in contrast to most Iranians in Iran. They profit from freedom of speech and faith, which we don’t have in Iran.
“Cash stolen from us via repression is now within the arms of their youngsters. For the previous 40 years, they’ve had a coverage of destroying the US, however they ship their very own youngsters with our cash to the US in first-class. They’re really destroying Iran,” she concluded.