WATCH: Iranian woman rallies against ‘generation that brought down the Shah’
A video of a woman chanting slogans against the generation that overthrew the shah’s regime in the 1979 Iranian revolution has been widely shared on social networks by Iranian activists.
She was also appealing to young people to continue their uprising to overthrow the Mullah’s regime. “I am a woman but I will stand in the frontlines with you young ones, because you represent the Iranian revolution,” she said to a crowd of demonstrators.
This woman was involved in the 1979 revolution bringing down the Shah regime. She says our young use to tell us that you brought the mullahs’ to power.“Now,I have come to expel them,” she says to a cheering crowd, adding “so rise up and join in.”#Iran #IranProtests #RegimeChange pic.twitter.com/9cbgGmITWo
— Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) January 1, 2018
The video shows crowds of young people supporting her chants and calls for the continuation of the uprising until the government steps down.
Tuesday marks the sixth day of protests and marches in the Iran uprising. Reports indicate demonstrators taking over small cities like Izeh, north of Ahwaz.
According to Iranian news agencies, the death toll keeps rising, while several protesters have been injured and arrested.
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