Wide protests to hit Iran, soon: Jarallah

CAIRO – 4 November 2018: Editor-in-Chief of Al Seyassah Kuwaiti daily newspaper Ahmed Al-Jarallah has anticipated wide protests to hit Iran, soon.

“Iran will witness severe protests that will not stop, the Iranian capital will witness demonstrations similar to what Iran’s cities witnessed before the fall of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran,” Jarallah tweeted on Sunday.

In August, thousands of Iranian citizens have protested the soaring unemployment rate and dramatic drop in the currency after the Trump administration announced imposing economic sanctions due to Iran’s non-adherence to the nuclear agreement.

Tehran is celebrating the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-1981), a major international crisis caused by the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and its employees by revolutionary Iranian students, who then held the Embassy employees as hostages, in direct violation of international law.

The revolutionary government of Iran, under the Ayatollah Khomeini, supported the hostage undertaking. The crisis ended with the release of the hostages after a captivity of 444 days, from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981.

Ahmed Al-Jarallah is a Kuwaiti journalist, author, and the editor-in-chief of the Kuwaiti newspapers Arab Times and Al-Seyassah and owner of the weekly magazine Al-Hadaf. Jarallah is known for his criticism of Islamic extremism.