The Iranian power leadership holds an emergency meeting to deal with the wave of protests

MADRID, 9 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi; the president of the Majlis, Mohamad Baqer Qalibaf and the head of the Judiciary, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejei, have held an emergency meeting to discuss a response to the wave of protests that has been shaking the country for weeks over the death of the young Mahsa Amini in custody for wearing the veil incorrectly.

During the meeting, which the Iranian Presidency reported this Sunday in a statement collected by the semi-official ISNA news agency, the three leaders agreed that "security and peace in the country is the basis for all kinds of activities people's economics and businesses.

All of them, following the official line from the beginning of the demonstrations, blamed the disturbances on the hidden hand of "regional enemies who consider a unified and powerful Iran as a threat to their interests."

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of several cities in Iran again this Saturday to protest against the authorities at the beginning of the fourth week of demonstrations unleashed by the death of the young Kurdish-Iranian.

The official Iranian news agency IRNA has confirmed that the disturbances -- caused by "organized opposition groups against the government", according to the authorities' narrative -- have been repeated again this past night in the streets of Tehran, while media Kurds have highlighted that the protests are spreading to areas where this ethnic group is the majority, such as Sanandaj, in the Iranian province of Kurdistan.

There, at least two protesters have been shot dead by Iranian agents dressed in civilian clothes, according to the NGO Hengaw, and another 70 have been injured. In addition, a member of the Revolutionary Guard, identified as Gholamreza Bamdi, has died during the disturbances, according to the semi-official Iranian agency Tasnim, close to the ideological wing of the Iranian Army.

The Iranian authorities are also investigating an act of electronic piracy against the Iranian state television channel IRIB, whose broadcast was interrupted yesterday afternoon with the appearance of a masked man accompanied by an image of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, with flames around him. .

The individual claimed to belong to a group called Adalat Ali, or Ali's Justice, reports the British BBC. Images of Amini were also shown at his appearance, with captions reading "Join us and stand up." The outage lasted only a few seconds before returning to regular programming.