Iran: two officers of the Revolutionary Guards shot dead in Zahedan
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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The two members of the Revolutionary Guards were killed on Tuesday, October 25 in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, where the repression of the demonstrations triggered after the death of Mahsa Amini was particularly violent.
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Colonel Mehdi Molashahi and Javad Kikha, members of the Guardians in Sistan-Balochistan province, were shot dead by unidentified people in the city of Zahedan
,” Iranian news agency Tasnim reported.
The agency specifies that the authorities have opened an investigation to identify the perpetrators of the attack.
Located in one of the poorest regions of Iran, Zahedan has been the scene of a particularly bloody event in recent weeks, against a backdrop of protest in the country.
On September 30, at least
93 people were killed
during a demonstration repressed by the security forces, according to the NGO Iran Human Rights.
Since then, tension has remained high in this deprived region.
Initially, state media accused "
extremists
" of being behind attacks on police stations.
However, an influential Sunni religious leader in Sistan-Balochistan, Molavi Abdol Hamid, accused the security forces of having fired "
at people gathered around a mosque
".
According to him, the tensions began after a “
case of alleged rape of a teenager by a police officer
”.
Also on Tuesday,
protests
took place in Tehran, the country's capital.
And as often in recent weeks, the students appeared on the front line, in particular to denounce an intervention by the police, the day before, against a gathering of female students outside their university.
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