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Security forces fire on mourners in Kurdish town in western Iran
2023-01-01
[Rudaw] Thousands of Kurdish protesters and mourners shouted death to the dictator in the town of Javanrud in western Iran
...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence...
on Saturday as security forces tried to prevent them from visiting a cemetery and fired on them, wounding several.

Videos showed dozens of riot coppers seizing the hills around the cemetery where those killed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its militia Basij were buried. The guards used live ammunition on November 21 against unarmed protesters shooting at least seven dead and dozens others maimed.

Hengaw human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
organization said that at least eight mourners were maimed in the town on Saturday after the IRGC and other security forces opened fire on protesters. Videos showed tear gas being fired at the protesters including women as protesters lined up the street.

Since the beginning of the protest sparked by the killing of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini by the morality police in Tehran on September 16, at least 508 known protesters and bystanders have been killed including 69 children by the security forces, according to the US based Human Rights Activists News Agency.

A video obtained by Rudaw showed dozens of protesters in the town center chanting "death to Khamenei" referring to the Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
, the ultimate decision-maker who is in charge of the IRGC - responsible for the massacre in the town on November 21.

On Saturday lunch time, both Hengaw and Kurdistan Human Rights Network said that a protester by the name of Burhan Elyasi was killed by the security forces during the gathering which turned violent mostly peaceful after the security forces opened fire on protesters.
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