An anti-regime protest in Tehran, Iran, on Jan 9. (Credit: AP)
Confronted by protests that directly target it, the Iranian regime is applying to the majority of the population a level of violence it typically reserves for minorities. "We never imagined seeing in Tehran, Mashhad, or Shiraz the kind of repression we know in Kurdistan," notes Fatemeh Karimi, social sciences researcher and member of the Kurdistan Human Rights Network. The sociologist is referring to the brutality with which the Islamic Republic responded to the wave of protest that swept the country, killing at least 4,519 people according to the U.S.-based NGO Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA). This organization stresses that the toll could be even higher, as another 9,049 cases are still under review. What several observers are already calling a massacre is partly due to a widespread use of live ammunition against...
Confronted by protests that directly target it, the Iranian regime is applying to the majority of the population a level of violence it typically reserves for minorities. "We never imagined seeing in Tehran, Mashhad, or Shiraz the kind of repression we know in Kurdistan," notes Fatemeh Karimi, social sciences researcher and member of the Kurdistan Human Rights Network. The sociologist is referring to the brutality with which the Islamic Republic responded to the wave of protest that swept the country, killing at least 4,519 people according to the U.S.-based NGO Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA). This organization stresses that the toll could be even higher, as another 9,049 cases are still under review. What several observers are already calling a massacre is partly due to a widespread use of live ammunition against...
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