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Dozens dead in eastern Iran protests, resembling warzone
[Rudaw] Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have closed all the roads leading in and out of the city of Zahedan in southeast Iran
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as angry protesters burn tires and military helicopters fly overhead, a day after a crackdown on protests there left at least 42 dead and over 200 maimed, Baluchi activist muppets say.

Outside the cop shoppe, located near Makki Grand Mosque in Zahedan, the bucolic provincial capital of Sistan and Baluchestan, security forces opened fire towards unarmed protesters with videos from the scene published by Baluchi activist muppets showing hundreds of people running for cover.

The city resembles a war zone since crowds of angry protesters marched towards a local cop shoppe after Friday prayer, chanting anti-government slogans. Protesters demanded a response from the authorities regarding the case of a 15-year-old girl said to have been sexually assaulted by a police brass hat a month ago, accusing the government of covering up the offense.

Activists said that the death of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa (Zhina) Amini in Tehran last month also added fuel to protesters' anger.

"We have confirmed the killing of 42 people and 193 maimed by the security forces but the real number is much higher and many maimed are refraining from going to the hospital for fear of arrest," Abdollah Aref the head of human rights
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watchdog Baloch Campaign told Rudaw English on Saturday.

He added that most of the fatalities were a result of a lack of medical attention as most families were afraid to admit their maimed relatives to government-owned medical facilities.

Baluchis are a mainly Sunni ethnic minority in Iran, living predominantly in the southeastern Baluchestan region, near the border with Pakistain.

"The city is militarized with drones flying overhead and all the schools and government offices closed. Some have been reported missing but no one knows where they are and if they have been arrested," Aref said.

Videos posted on Twitter by other activist muppets portray a defiant city reluctant to give up, chanting as helicopters flew overhead.

Photos were also published of dozens of people who were reportedly killed or maimed, with severe gunshot wounds, lying on the ground and being attended by other protesters, with no ambulances in sight.

Aref, who resides outside Iran and is in contact with activist muppets and residents of Zahedan said that some activist muppets placed the number of dead at around 100, adding that he could not confirm the figure.

"The internet was patchy yesterday and activist muppets were using VPN to send videos and photos out of the events but last night the authorities switched off the internet," he recounted.

IRGC-affiliated media claimed that protesters used weapons when attacking the cop shoppe - a claim Aref rejects, accusing security forces of forcing people to make false confessions on camera about carrying weapons.

The head of the IRGC intelligence, his deputy, and two other guards were reportedly killed, according to Iran's state media, without any details being provided about how protesters would be capable of killing such bigwigs.

IRGC officials and other members of the Iranian security apparatus adopted a strong position, threatening "rioters." Thousands of people have been arrested, including many women's rights activist muppets, with hundreds maimed and over 80 killed in the two weeks of protests that have engulfed Iran since Amini's death.

Iranians inside the country and across the world have staged protests calling for the overthrowal of the regime in Tehran.

Authorities in Tehran have labeled the protests as foreign intervention aimed at turning Iran into another Syria, adding that Amini had died of a heart attack, and not at the hands of security forces.

Protests however, are showing no sign of subsiding as university students across the country, particularly in the Kurdish areas, are on strike on Saturday.
Posted by: trailing wife 2022-10-02
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