Farideh Moradkhani, the niece of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a rights activist, urged foreign governments to cut ties with Iran's regime in a video posted to YouTube.
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"Every day we are witnessing atrocities, monstrosities and horror resulting in great human suffering," Moradkhani said. She criticized the inaction of the United Nations, apart from what she called "short and ineffective statements."citizens of the world to "tell your governments to stop supporting this murderous and child-killing regime."
“This regime is not loyal to any of its religious principles and does not know any laws or rules except force and maintaining its power in any way possible,” she added. "Now is the time for all the 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; thus, expressing solidarity and unity with the freedom-seeking people of Iran.
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