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2022-11-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Five killed in shootout at market in Iran
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[REGNUM] At least five people were killed in an armed attack on a market in the city of Ize in southwestern Iran.
| That’s in Khuzestan Governorate, for those looking on a map. |
This was reported by Tasnim agency.
According to him, on the evening of November 16, armed men on two motorcycles opened fire on visitors to the market, and police officers and Iranian security forces began firing back. Three young men, a nine-year-old girl and a 45-year-old woman were killed in the shootout. Ten people were also injured, some of them in critical condition.
Police are treating the attack as a terrorist attack. Currently, Iranian security forces are trying to identify the attackers and find them. It is noted that order in the city has already been restored.
State TV said that groups of several dozens of protesters had gathered in different parts of Izeh late Wednesday, chanting anti-government slogans and hurling rocks at police, who fired tear gas to disperse them.
The violence in Izeh tokk place on the second day of a three-day general strike called by the protesters. The strike commemorates an earlier round of nationwide protests in 2019 in which hundreds of protesters were killed.
Iranian officials have blamed the unrest on hostile foreign actors without providing evidence. The protesters say they are fed up after decades of repression by a holy manal establishment that they view as corrupt and authoritarian.
Activists say at least 344 people have been killed and 15,820 arrested in the latest wave of protests. Rights groups accuse security forces of firing live ammunition and bird shot at demonstrators, and of beating them with batons.
Iran's Revolutionary Court, which tries security cases, issued a preliminary verdict sentencing three protesters to death in the capital, Tehran, earlier on Wednesday, state media reported.
Mizan, a news website linked to Iran's judiciary, did not identify the accused but said one of them had allegedly rammed a vehicle into police, killing one and wounding others.
It said another was accused of attacking security forces with a knife and setting fire to a government building. The third individual was accused of blocking a street and leading a violent mostly peaceful demonstration. Mizan said the verdicts can be appealed.
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