At least ten people, including a woman and two children as well as a policeman, died in the Iran into two separate ones attacks by motorcycle in the provinces of Khuzestan and Isfahan.
As Iranian media reported on Thursday (17/11) in Khuzestan province, “armed terrorist elements” riding two motorcycles opened fire on a market where protesters and security forces had gathered, killing five people and injuring 10.
“Two wounded succumbed to their injuries early today, bringing the toll to seven dead and eight injured,” said an official at Jodi-Sapur Hospital in Ahvaz, the provincial capital.
Among the dead, as reported by the Athens News Agency, is a 45-year-old woman and two children aged 9 and 13, according to him.
Two paramilitaries and three police officers are among the eight wounded, a provincial security official told state television.
Moreover, according to a high-ranking Khuzestan judicial official, three perpetrators have been arrested and investigations continue to identify their accomplices.
A state television report said that protests and calls for a strike began yesterday, Wednesday, at around 17:00 local time. Protesters blocked downtown streets, set fire to car tires and attacked banks and shops before setting fire to a religious school.
The Iranian president’s order to the authorities “to act immediately in order to identify the perpetrators of the attack”
Iranian President Ibrahim Raishi ordered the authorities to “act immediately to identify the perpetrators of the attack and bring them to justice to be punished.”
Four hours later in Isfahan, central Iran, two assailants on a motorcycle opened fire with an automatic weapon on members of the security forces. They killed a police officer as well as two paramilitaries. Seven other members of the order’s forces were wounded, state television reported.
On October 26, at least 13 people were killed in Shiraz in an attack claimed by Islamic State on the Shahsherag mausoleum, the most important Shiite shrine in southern Iran.
The new attacks come as Iran is rocked by a wave of protests following the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsha Amini after she was arrested by morality police in Tehran. Dozens of people, mostly protesters but also members of the security forces, have been killed since the beginning of the movement, according to the authorities.
Today Tehran accused Israel and Western intelligence agencies of conspiring to start a civil war in Iran.
“Various security agencies, Israel and some Western politicians planning civil war, destruction and disintegration of Iran should know that Iran is not Libya or Sudan,” Hossein Amirabdollahian underlined on Twitter.
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Source: News Beast
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