Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has decreed on Saturday the appointment of Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Radan as the new head of the National Police amid the wave of protests that began in September against the death in custody of young Mahsa Amini and which, according to NGOs, have resulted in 470 deaths.
Radan, according to the decree published by the official Iranian news agency IRNA, takes over the post since his predecessor, Hosein Ashtari, «has completed his mission» after eight years in office.
The ayatollah asks Radan, former chief of police of the former province of Khorasan, as well as of Sistan and Baluchistan, and finally of the capital, Tehran, to «take measures to safeguard security and provide public tranquility».
Also this Saturday it has been known that the Iranian authorities have announced the execution of two more demonstrators who participated in the protests against the death of the young woman, arrested for allegedly wearing the Islamic veil incorrectly.
The executed, identified as Mohamed Mehdi Karami and Mohamed Hosseini, were convicted for the death of a security guard during one of the protests in November, the Iranian judicial agency Mizan announced.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
