Parts of Iran now resemble combat zones, with flares lighting up the sky, gunfire booming out, and deadly incidents captured on film, over a month after the commencement of widespread protests.
One protester sent a message from Sanandaj, a city in western Iran with a significant Kurdish population where, despite an almost complete internet blackout there, some of the rallies’ most dramatic photos have surfaced, saying, “I am shooting this video about the situation there.”
The security personnel fired in the direction of residences last night. They were employing rounds of a military caliber, he claimed. “I hadn’t heard such gunshots up until today. People were quite frightened.”
Young demonstrators and highly armed security personnel looked to be fighting in video that was presumably recorded from rooftops. A cloud of smoke and dust enveloped the city blocks as bullets and flares flew across the night sky.
Other recordings from the street showed demonstrators hurling rocks at police, who occasionally rode by on motorbikes and looked to be firing at the mob.
In addition to local police, a sizable number of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have reportedly been involved in the crackdown, according to activists in Sanandaj, who charge that authorities are retaliating indiscriminately. A 7-year-old kid reportedly passed away on Sunday in his mother’s arms when security forces opened fire on a gathering of protestors, according to the Kurdish rights organization Hengaw, located in Oslo.
Even while it is hard to objectively confirm the number of people killed in such fights, graphic web photographs, eyewitness accounts and rights organizations indicate that there was violence. A motorist in the city was shown on video laying dead with a serious gunshot wound to the face; activists claim he was beeping his horn in support of the demonstrators.
“In Sanandaj, they use gunshots to shoot those who blow their horns. Another demonstrator said that “they shoot young and elderly alike.” The injured avoid visiting hospitals because if they do, plainclothes officers will arrest them.
“We’re demonstrating for Iran’s freedom. For the Iranian people who are clamoring for the overthrow of the regime, for the detainees and the condemned. Everyone want the end of this government.
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