Protests in Iran: Despite the dead, Iranians continue the struggle, Iran recognizes the shooting
About 4 weeks of anti-regime protests; At least 201 people were killed, including 23 children, according to a new toll from a human rights group.
“At least 201 people have been killed in nearly four weeks of protests in Iran,” the Norwegian-based Iranian Center for Human Rights said in its latest report released on Wednesday, noting that 23 of the dead were children.
“Their investigations into possible killings in Kurdish areas over the past three days are ongoing,” he said, warning of “the bloody repression of demonstrators and Kurdistan’s population”.
The center called on the international community to respond immediately to the issue, noting that the victims were in 18 Iranian provinces that witnessed popular protests against the government and the regime.
He pointed out that “the killing of demonstrators was concentrated especially in Sistan and Baluchistan more than anywhere else in Iran,” noting that “Sistan and Baluchistan killed 93 people, followed by Mazandaran province with 28 people, Kurdistan with 14 people, Jilan with 12 people, Azerbaijan with 12 people, and Tehran with 11 people.”
Confession
Gen. Hossein Ashtari, commander of Iran’s police force, attributed the shooting of demonstrators with “military weapons” in recent protests to “police uniforms” who want to escalate the conflict.
“Nowadays, people come as policemen or as officials in this region, their intentions are evil and they seek to increase disputes and conflicts,” the commander-in-chief of the police force said in a video interview, part of which was published by Mehr news agency.
“As we saw in these scenes, some of them were arrested, arrested with weapons of war, and they were shooting among the people; “They confessed that some of them were killed, and they were taking action against groups on the other side of the country when they were arrested.”
In the past, there have been reports of the role of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in suppressing nationwide protests.
The Basij, the military arm of the Revolutionary Guard, usually wear civilian clothes to participate in suppressing protests and carrying out their security duties.
On October 6, a corps of the Revolutionary Guards announced that 185 Basij soldiers had been injured during the mission to suppress the ongoing protests in Tehran.
