Iranian security forces kill three more Kurdish protesters

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its militia gunned down three more Kurdish protesters in the Kurdish areas of the country (Rojhelat) on Wednesday night, a human rights watchdog reported, raising the death toll to eight over the past two days, with 50 others wounded.

“This could be the last day of my life, for the happiness of this nation,” Mohamad Hasanzade posted on his Instagram account hours before he was killed by the IRGC in the town of Bukan. Salar Mojaver, 30, was killed in the Mirabad neighborhood of Bukan by security forces at close range.

On Tuesday and Wednesday alone, at least eight people were killed and 50 others were injured across Rojhelat, according to Kurdistan Human Rights Network. 

Over 30 cities across Iran saw widespread protests on Wednesday night, nearly two months after the morality police in Tehran killed Kurdish woman Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, sparking nationwide antigovernment protest.

At least 362 protesters and bystanders have been killed by the security forces during the nine weeks of unrest across the country, including at least 56 children according to US based Human Rights Activists News Agency. The Oslo-based Iran Human Rights tally put the number of dead protesters at 342. On the government’s side, 46 members of the security forces mostly from the IRGC and Basij have been killed.

Dramatic footage released on activists’ Telegram channel showed the moment a bullet pierced Borhan Karamai, 32, outside the house of another protester killed a day earlier in the town of Kamyaran, dropping dropped dead instantly. The IRGC and Basij had killed Fouad Mohamamdi a day earlier and fired at his family outside a hospital in the city wounding several members.

At Amini’s birthplace, a teenager named as Danial Pabandi was killed in the Karimabad neighborhood of the city by the security forces. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights said that the family of the 17-year-old Pabandi was forced to bury him in the middle of the night in secret.

According to activists, security forces shot dead three protesters in Isfahan’s province Semirom.

Several protesters have been sentenced to death after being accused of carrying arms or killing members of the security forces. The government crackdown against protesters has come under increasing international scrutiny as the UN Human Rights Council is expected to hold a special session on November 24.

The US and the EU and Canada are placing more sanctions on Iranian officials and entities including several reporters on Iranian national TV that have been accused of working as interrogators.

Ken McCallum, the Director General of MI5, the UK domestic intelligence chief accused the Iranian state of using intimidation, coercion, and even violence on UK soil against its opponents. He said that Iran “most frequently crosses into terrorism” to pursue its interests and revealed that Tehran has at least on ten occasions tried to “kidnap or even kill British or UK based individuals perceived as enemies of the regime.”

IRGC mouthpiece Tasnim News Agency said that seven members of the security forces were killed, while eight were injured in Izeh town, Khuzestan province, when two assailants on a motorbike fired at the security forces. 

In Malakshahr, Isfahan, two Basiji were killed and two others wounded after two people on a motorbike fired towards them.

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