An Iranian general declares for the first time … Khamenei gave us the order, so we suppressed the protests

Almost three years after the anniversary of the outbreak of protests in most Iranian cities, in protest against the mismanagement of the country’s affairs by the mullah regime, a senior Iranian general surprised the media by revealing that the forces of the army participated in the suppression of the protests at that time.

This came during the dialogue of the commander of the ground forces in the Iranian army, Kumrath Heydari, with the website of the Guide to the Iranian Revolution, Ali Khamenei, according to the Iranian website “Radio Farda”.

And there have been press reports in recent years about the involvement of members of the Revolutionary Guard, Basij forces and the police, dressed in civilian clothes, in the crackdown on demonstrations in Iran.

And now, a high-ranking Iranian military officer acknowledges the participation of Iranian ground forces units, for the first time since the outbreak of the revolution in 1979.

Kimworth described the role of the army in suppressing the protests as “honorable” and said: “Our presence on the ground was aimed at stabilizing the powers of the governorate and demonstrating dominance of the system.”

Without going into details, Haidari said that the army’s ground forces had a “tremendous influence” in suppressing the protests, adding that “the leader of the revolution gave us orders on this matter, and we take them into account.”

Haidari said, as reported by the “Iran International” website, that the participation of his forces in these tasks falls under the heading of “deductive tasks”, which he described saying: “We say that our presence (this) field is a deductive task, that is, we conclude that it is better “to be there”.

Haidari continued: “Today we are not in the ranks of a king or a prince, we are the soldiers of the Leader of the Revolution, the Imam of time and God, and this is the best way today to distinguish ourselves from the past.”

At the end of 2017, hundreds of people, especially in Mashhad (northeast), the second largest city in the country, demonstrated against high prices and unemployment.

The unrest spread to dozens of Iranian cities. The protest movement at the time led to the deaths of at least 25 people, most of them protesters, as well as the arrest of hundreds more.

Tehran described this protest movement against the high cost of living, which quickly took a political turn, as an “insurgency”.