Since Iran protests have taken a new surge, neither the people nor the government has refused to back down and in a new development, dozens were killed and hundreds were injured while protesting in Zahedan.
Buildings were set ablaze and security forces used helicopters to disperse crowds and shoot at protestors, as the tensions continue to rise.
The Baluch activists’ campaign group reported that 58 people had died and more than 270 people had been injured in clashes in the south-eastern city, the capital of Sistan and Baluchistan province.
The protest was a move supporting justice for the “government murder” of Mahsa Amini and the rape of a 15-year-old Baluch girl by a commander of Chabahar’s county security forces.
In a video shared on social media, shooting is heard as people carry the wounded to the hospital. Three of the dead were named locally as Mahmoud Barahoui from the village of Shirabad, a student of the Badr al-Oloum religious school, named Amin, and Rafe Narouei, a 23-year-old from Zahedan.
Several women were also injured and taken to the hospital till there were no empty beds, as the government authorities threw tear gas at them.
The Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, announced that Ali Mousavi, the intelligence commander of the Sistan and Baluchistan Revolutionary Guards, was among those killed.
Many footballers and political leaders have stood in solidarity with the Iran protesters to fight for justice for their women.
