Several funerals for victims of police repression in Iran are triggering spontaneous demonstrations against the authorities in Tehran, where slogans hostile to the Iranian regime are being shouted, several local media reported on Friday.
Some protesters set fire to the house of the former leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, information that is being advanced by BBC and by the international news agencies AFP and Reuters🇧🇷
These agencies say they have confirmed that the images circulating on social networks show flames in the ancestral home of the first leader of the Islamic Republic, in Khomein, the city named in his honor.
Even so, local authorities and an Iranian news agency, Tasnim, deny that the house was set on fire, only referring to a small group of people gathering nearby.
The most recent protests took place this Friday in the city of Izeh, in the southwestern province of Kuzistan, after the funeral of a child, according to the family, killed by Iranian security forces, indicates the non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights. . (IHR), based in Oslo, and the opposition portal ‘1500tasvir’.
Iran is the scene of a protest movement sparked on September 16 by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish girl arrested three days earlier by customs police accused of violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code by wearing improperly. the hijabthe islamic veil
According to IHR, following the protests, which the Iranian authorities consider “riots”, security forces have already detained more than 15,000 protesters.
Today, according to photographs released by the state news agency Isna and videos posted on social networks by the IHR and the ‘1500tasvir’ portal, dozens of people protested and chanted slogans against the Tehran regime after the funeral of Kian Pirfalak, a child nine years old. -old boy allegedly shot by police.
In the video released by the IHR, a woman portrayed as the boy’s mother is heard accusing security forces of killing Kian on Wednesday.
The official Iranian press attributed the attack to “terrorists”, which it did not identify, in which seven people were reportedly killed.
“Listen to me to find out how the attack happened, because they lie when they say it was a terrorist attack. It was a plainclothes policeman who killed my son. That’s what happened,” says the woman in the video.
According to the foreign press associated with the Iranian opposition, in addition to Kian, a 14-year-old teenager, Sepehr Maghsoudi, was also killed in the attack on Izeh.
“Death to Khamenei”, the protesters shouted during and after Kian’s funeral, as can be seen in another video posted on the ‘1500tasvir’ portal, in a new reference to the ‘Supreme Leader’ of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. .
The funerals of protesters killed in the repression often give rise to protest actions to denounce the death of Mahsa Amini and, more broadly, to attack power.
The governor of the province of Kuzistan, Sadegh Khalilian, accused “foreign elements”, which he did not identify, of being behind the attack on Wednesday, according to the Iranian news agency Fars, associated with the Iranian regime.
In recent days, hundreds of people have demonstrated in most of Iran’s Kurdish cities in protests again marked by episodes of violence and repression, two months after the death of a young Iranian Kurdish man.
The demonstrations coincided this week with the third anniversary of the so-called “bloody November” of 2019, when more than 300 protesters, according to Amnesty International (AI), were killed during the repression of a wave of protests in Iran motivated by the increase in the price of combustible goods.
According to a balance issued this Wednesday by the IHR, at least 342 people died in the repression of the protest movement unleashed on September 16.
Source: TSF
