SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The President of the United States, Joe Bide on Saturday said he was surprised by the courage of the people taking to the streets in protest in Iran.
Biden, speaking in Portland after campaigning for a fellow Democrat in Oregon’s race for governor, was commenting on the weeks of unrest in Iran since a young woman was killed in police custody.
A day earlier Biden called on leaders in Iran to end the violence against its own citizens.
Women “should be able to wear in God’s name what they want to wear,” he said, during a speech at Irvine Valley Community College in California. “Iran has to end the violence against its own citizens simply exercising their fundamental rights.”
Iran stepped into one month of protests which have engulfed the country since the death of Kurdish Mahsa Amini on September 16 while in the custody of the morality police in Tehran.
The use of violence by Iranian security forces to disperse the demonstrators has been widely condemned by the international community.
