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DUBAI, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's niece, a good known rights activist, has called connected overseas governments to chopped each ties with Tehran implicit its convulsive crackdown connected fashionable unrest kindled by the decease successful constabulary custody of a young woman.
A video of a connection by Farideh Moradkhani, an technologist whose precocious begetter was a salient absorption fig joined to Khamenei's sister, was being wide shared online aft what activistic quality bureau HRANA said was her apprehension connected Nov. 23.
"O escaped people, beryllium with america and archer your governments to halt supporting this murderous and child-killing regime," Moradkhani said successful the video. "This authorities is not loyal to immoderate of its spiritual principles and does not cognize immoderate rules but unit and maintaining power."
Khamenei's bureau did not instantly respond to a Reuters petition for comment.
HRANA said 450 protesters had been killed successful much than 2 months of nationwide unrest arsenic of Nov. 26, including 63 minors. It said 60 members of the information forces had been killed, and 18,173 protesters detained.
The protests, sparked by the decease of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian pistillate Mahsa Amini aft her apprehension for "inappropriate attire", pose 1 of the strongest challenges to the country's clerical constitution since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Jalal Mahmoudzadeh, a subordinate of parliament from the chiefly Kurdish metropolis of Mahabad, said connected Sunday that arsenic galore arsenic 105 radical had been killed successful Kurdish-populated areas during the protests. He was speaking successful a statement successful parliament arsenic quoted by the Entekhan website.
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Challenging the Islamic Republic’s legitimacy, protesters from each walks of beingness person burned pictures of Khamenei and called for the downfall of Iran's Shi'ite Muslim theocracy.
The video was shared connected YouTube connected Friday by her brother, France-based Mahmoud Moradkhani, who presents himself arsenic "an hostile of the Islamic Republic" connected his Twitter account, and past by salient Iranian rights activists.
On Nov. 23, Mahmoud Moradkhani reported her sister's apprehension arsenic she was heeding a tribunal bid to look astatine the Tehran prosecutor's office. Farideh had been arrested earlier this twelvemonth by Iran's Intelligence Ministry and aboriginal released connected bail.
HRANA said she was successful Tehran's Evin information prison. Moradkhani, it said, had earlier faced a 15-year situation condemnation connected unspecified charges.
Her father, Ali Moradkhani Arangeh, was a Shi'ite cleric joined to Khamenei's sister and precocious passed distant successful Tehran pursuing years of isolation owed to his stance against the Islamic Republic, according to his website.
Farideh Moradkhani added successful her video: "Now is the clip for each escaped and antiauthoritarian countries to callback their representatives from Iran arsenic a symbolic motion and to expel the representatives of this brutal authorities from their countries."
On Thursday, the United Nations' apical quality rights assemblage decided by a comfy borderline to found a caller investigative ngo to look into Tehran's convulsive information crackdown connected the anti-government protests.
Criticism of the Islamic Republic by relatives of apical officials is not unprecedented. In 2012, Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, the girl of precocious erstwhile president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was sentenced to jailhouse for "anti-state propaganda".
Iranian authorities released connected bail the activistic and blogger Hossein Ronaghi connected Nov. 26 to acquisition aesculapian treatment, according to his member penning connected Twitter.
Concerns had been increasing astir Ronaghi’s wellness aft helium went connected a hunger onslaught past month.
Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Tom Perry, Mark Heinrich and Hugh Lawson
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