Farideh Moradkhani, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s niece, urged foreign governments to cut all ties with Tehran over the officials’ violent crackdown on protesters.
In a video published on social media, Moradkhani said: “O free people, be with us and tell your governments to stop supporting this murderous and child-killing regime.”
Moradkhani described the authorities led by her uncle as a “murderous and child-killing regime”.
“This regime is not loyal to any of its religious principles and does not know any rules except force and maintaining power,” she added.
In addition, Moradkhani compared Khamenei to Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler, Fascist Italy’s Benito Mussolini, and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
She noted: “Now is the time for all free and democratic countries to recall their representatives from Iran as a symbolic gesture and to expel the representatives of this brutal regime from their countries.”
Khamenei’s office did not immediately respond to comment.
HRANA reported that 450 protesters had been killed over two months of nationwide unrest as of Nov. 26, including 63 minors. It indicated that 60 members of the security forces had been killed, whereas 18,173 protesters were detained.
The protests, sparked by the death of young Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini after her arrest for “inappropriate attire”, mark one of the strongest challenges to the country’s clerical establishment since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.