Revolutionary Guards’ attacks kill at least seven, while marches for the death of Mahsa Amini extend to the country’s 31 provinces
The Revolutionary Guards bombed positions of several Iranian Kurdish militias in northern Iraq for the fifth consecutive day, killing at least seven people, according to the Rudaw Channel. The operation aimed to “end separatists’ support for the protests” that Iran has been suffering for two weeks, the Fars agency said, and used “Fateh 360 missiles and suicide drones”.
Iranian Kurds opposing the regime operate out of neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan, which is home to the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), the Kurdish Free Life Party (PJAK) and Komala. The Islamic authorities see their hands behind the violence in the mobilizations of recent days and in the calls for a general strike in the Kurdish part of the country.
Iran is experiencing its worst protests in the past three years and the spark that lit the streets was the death of young Kurdish Mahsa Amini at the hands of the moral police. He was arrested in Tehran two weeks ago for not wearing the veil correctly and was admitted to a hospital in the capital for brain death a few hours later. The first major demonstration took place in Saqqez, Amini’s hometown. Since then, the mobilizations have spread to the country’s 31 provinces and more than 70 people have died, according to several human rights groups.
On the part of the regime there are no official figures or deaths, injuries or prisoners. Obtaining information is becoming increasingly complex due to internet disruptions, social network blocking and the arrest of journalists. At least 19 local reporters have already been arrested for covering the protests.
The lawyer of the Amini family, Mohammad Saleh Nikbakht, spoke to the media for the first time and stated in an interview with Rudaw that “all the claims that the regime makes about Zhina, such as that she suffers from a chronic disease and so on, lies and they must are not taken seriously. The murder of prisoners in these places is not something new. If they had killed her in Kurdistan, they could have distorted the facts, but this time they could not.” ‘Zhina’ is the Kurdish name for Mahsa, who used the latter as a name in Farsi.
Nikbakht said the family’s legal team had called for an independent commission of inquiry and had shown “little hope” that a future trial would have a successful outcome.
Mahsa would have turned 23 this Thursday, and the thousands of Iranians who have protested since her death will certainly have this date on their agendas to once again shout out against the mandatory use of the veil. The protest that started in the Kurdish province of Iran is already a nationwide uprising.
Source: La Verdad
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