Pasdaran hit Iraqi Kurdistan. Masha's cousin speaks: "beaten"

In Iran, the protest spreads like wildfire and the response of the ayatollahs intensifies.

The Guardians of the Iranian Revolution, the Pasdaran, reported having launched missiles and drones against "terrorist bases" in Iraqi Kurdistan. The authorities in Tehran accuse the Iranian Kurdish dissidents of being involved in the recent protests underway in the country and especially in the Northwest Iran. The same Kurdish part from which Masha Amini came. The Pasdaran leaders are convinced that Kurdish opposition groups are behind the wave of protests that threaten the Islamic Republic, following the death of the "martyr" of the veil. .

"We will not allow threats to form on our borders," said the deputy commander for military operations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. 

The Koysanca area in northern Iraq and the Soran districts in Erbil, along with Kirkuk's Altinkopru and Sulaymaniyah's Zirgvez, reported the Turkish agency Anadolu, adding that victims are feared.

Almost 3,000 arrests and more than 70 demonstrators were killed by the security forces, while the protest sees no sign of regression, with thousands of people taking to the streets last night shouting "Death to the dictator".

“We can't live, we can't breathe,” the women say as they burn their hijabs.

The attack was also confirmed by a local official in Rudaw, explaining that the Revolutionary Guards opened fire on a border area in the Kurdistan region for the fifth consecutive day.

For days the protest and the violent repression by the regime, in reference to civil rights, have been watched by governments around the world.

Demonstrations in support of the Iranian market take place all over the planet, from Canada to South America, from Syria to Europe.

Diplomatic sources report that

also summoned today the Iranian ambassador to Madrid, Hassan Ghashghavi, to express Spain's protest at the violent repression of demonstrations.

Berlin has done the same thing in recent days.

The convocation came after the statement of condemnation by the ministry led by José Manuel Albares on what has been happening for 10 days in Iran: "the violence used against peaceful demonstrators" and in which it asked the authorities to guarantee "fully the right of all citizens to express themselves and demonstrate freely and peacefully".

Words already shared in recent days by European and US leaders who demand respect for international law on human rights.

In response, the Iranian police announce that they will use

against what they call

"and hostile elements, and will use firmness against those who upset public order and security in any part of the country", he said. said the police command. 

And it is precisely from Iraq bombed in these hours that Mahsa's family is still speaking: who died following a

, the cousin from Iraq

said in

"They slapped her and beat her," he added.

The 22-year-old was in Tehran for a family vacation before starting her university studies in the province of Western Azerbaijan.

But her path crossed that of the moral police on September 13, said Erfan Salih Mortezaee, 34, who has lived for a year in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Iranian police say, however, that Masha died naturally as a result of "a cardiac arrest".

The man claimed to have called Mahsa Amini's mother, who told him the facts of this fateful September 13th.

Mahsa, her brother and other women of the family wanted to take a tour of the capital.

As they left the Haghani subway station,

said Mortezaee, met at a base in Komala near Suleimaniyeh.

"The policeman said 'we will take her away, we will teach her the rules and how to wear the hijab'", added the cousin, assuring that the young woman was "dressed like all women in Iran, and was wearing the hijab".

"

Mortezaee said.

"They slapped her, then with a stick they hit her in the hands, in the legs."

The beatings continued inside the vehicle, according to Mortezaee.

"When she hit her on the head with the stick, she passed out."

After arriving at the commissioner, it took her at least an hour and a half before she was taken to the hospital, according to her, Mortezaee.

After three days in a coma, Masha Amini was pronounced dead on September 16.

Also according to the story of her mother reported by her cousin, the same doctors at the hospital informed the family that their daughter "had received a violent blow to the head".

AP

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