The attacks of the Revolutionary Guard leave at least seven dead while the marches for the death of Mahsa Amini extend to the 31 provinces of the country
The Revolutionary Guard bombed positions of different Iranian Kurdish militia parties in northern Iraq for the fifth consecutive day, killing at least seven people, according to the Rudaw channel. The operation was aimed at “ending the support of the separatists for the protests” that Iran has been suffering for two weeks, detailed the Fars agency, and “Fateh 360 missiles and suicide drones” were used in it.
Iranian Kurds who oppose the regime operate from neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan where the headquarters of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), the Kurdistan 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 area of the country.
Iran is experiencing the worst protests of the last three years and the spark that lit the streets was the death of the young Kurdish Mahsa Amini at the hands of the Morale Police. She was arrested in Tehran two weeks ago for not wearing the veil correctly and a few hours later she was admitted brain dead to a hospital in the capital. The first big demonstration took place in Saqqez, Amini’s hometown. Since then, the mobilizations have spread to the 31 provinces of the country and more than seventy people have died, according to different human rights organizations.
On the part of the regime there are no official figures or deaths, wounded or detainees. Obtaining information is increasingly complicated due to Internet outages, the blocking of social networks and the arrest of journalists. There are already at least 19 local reporters arrested for covering the protests.
no trust in justice
The Amini family’s lawyer, Mohammad Saleh Nikbakht, spoke to the media for the first time and in an interview with Rudaw stated that “all the claims the regime makes about Zhina, such as her suffering from a chronic illness and so on, are lies and they should not be taken seriously. The murder of prisoners in these places is not something new. If they had killed her in Kurdistan, they could have twisted the facts, but this time they couldn’t.” ‘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 the setting up of an independent investigation committee and showed “little hope” that any future trial would have a successful outcome.
Mahsa would have turned 23 this Thursday and surely the thousands of Iranians who have protested since her death will have this date marked on their agendas to shout once again against the mandatory use of the veil. The protest that was born in the Kurdish province of Iran is already a nationwide revolt.
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