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One month after Iran’s November uprisings, security forces are still hunting wounded protesters

Iran, December 20, 2019—A month has passed since the November protests erupted in 191 cities following the gas price hike in Iran. As witnessed, the Iranian regime did not tolerate the anti-government protest. This time, however, the regime found its dictatorship on the brink of collapse and perpetrated another crime against humanity by savagely gunning protesters down. The regime even used helicopters, tanks, heavy machine guns, snipers, etc., and directly targeted protesters in the chest and head.

Thanks to tireless PMOI/MEK Resistance Units efforts and rebellious people inside Iran, to date, the PMOI/MEK has been able to gather the names of 547 out of over 1,500 protesters killed by the regime’s forces (figures up to December 20, 2019): 400 in Tehran province, 320 in Kermanshah province, 270 in Fars province, 240 in Khuzestan province, 120 in Esfahan province and 100 in Alborz province and many more in other provinces.

 

 

As of November 16, over 4,000 have been injured and more than 12,000 arrested while the whereabouts of most of them remains unknown. News received from inside Iran indicate that many protesters’ tortured bodies are being found in rivers and elsewhere.

A month later, the regime’s Supreme National Security Council refuses to publish any statistics about the number of protesters killed, injured or even the number of arrested. This measure also made some rows in the regime’s parliament, sparking disputes between factions of the regime and discussing the fact that suppression may expedite the collapse of their regime.

On December 17, the state-run Jamaran website wrote, “[Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of the regime’s parliament] asked the regime’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli if it was not possible to shoot the protesters from the waist down [and not shots in the head and chest]? The Interior Minister answered, ‘Well, we had some shots in the leg!’ The answer delivered in cold blood shocked the representatives.”

Another side of the uprising that has remained in the shadows and has not been echoed in the media as it should is the shocking circumstances of those wounded.

The Iranian regime security forces used shotguns, axes, clubs, knives, etc. on a wide scale to suppress the protesters. But getting injured is not the end of the story for a protester. It is just the beginning of pain, sufferings and a new fight.

As experienced before, and as was expected, the regime attempted its utmost to trap and hunt down anti-regime protesters it could not arrest in the scene in any possible way.

Hospitals are the main ambushes for the regime to identify and capture protesters. Therefore, the wounded are practically denied enjoying any treatments in hospitals despite the fact that many wounded are in dire need of surgery and care. Talking to wounded protesters, they prefer to suffer at home or even lose their organs, rather than face an unknown and darker destiny.

One protester said, “… security forces targeted me with pellet gun fire. 18 pellets are in my hands and legs, but I could not go to a hospital because they arrested all injured individuals there. Now my right hand’s fingers are numb. There are also some shots in my right foot’s joint and my left elbow.”

Another witness from Tehran reported to the PMOI/MEK, “One of my relatives was hospitalized in Tehran’s Labbafinejad hospital… There were three wounded protesters shot by shotgun in my relative’s room under treatment, but security forces apprehended the three!”

A reporter of the PMOI/MEK website, also shot by shotgun and beaten with clubs has also the same story.

Mojahedin website reporter shot by pellet guns during the November uprising

Mojahedin website reporter shot by pellet guns during the November uprising

 

The story of wounded protesters during uprisings in Iran is not an untold story in Iran’s society, and has been repeated during and after any uprisings in Iran. In the 1980s, the Iranian regime security forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested many PMOI/MEK wounded members in hospitals. Elsewhere and in many cases IRGC forces even executed them on the scene at point-blank range or took them directly to interrogation rooms or placed them before death squads in prisons.

But a new phenomenon has widely emerged in Iran’s society among the Iranian people after the November uprising. Not only one cannot see fear or desperation among the wounded protesters, we are witnessing mothers, youth, fathers and even the elderly with gunshot wounds proudly talk about their painful wounds and sufferings, and are committed to put an end to the mullahs’ dictatorship very soon.

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