Protests are carrying on in the city of Ardabil following the senseless killing of 16-year-old Asra Panahi, who was reportedly killed in her classroom because she refused to sing an anthem praising Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Government security forces were said to have stormed her classroom last week and demanded that a group of teen girls take part in singing the pro-regime song, but when the students refused, the agents unleashed a brutal attack on them, including Panahi.
Several girls were left seriously injured, with one of the victims being rushed to the hospital as she remains in critical condition. Panahi, however, had succumbed to her injuries, which has sparked a huge protest in Ardabil, particularly because Iranian officials have claimed the incident never took place while news agencies backed by the government assert she apparently died of a sudden heart failure.
Asra Panahi, 16. High school student in Ardabil, #Iran.
Beaten to death by plainclothes forces for refusing to sing a song — Salam Farmandeh — in praise of the ‘Supreme Leader’ and while protesting against hijab.
The girl died of severe internal bleeding. #IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/zTyxpoMa5R— Abhijit Majumder (@abhijitmajumder) October 17, 2022
The protests continued over the weekend and well into the new week, as protestors simultaneously sought justice for the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was pulled over during her trip to Tehran for wearing her hijab too loosely that it was exposing strands of her hair. While she was supposed to have been taken to a detention center last month to commit to a “briefing class,” she ended up being transported to a hospital instead, where she died on September 16 following a three-day coma. She, too, was later claimed to have suffered from sudden “heart failure.”
It’s believed that almost 30 children have died during the volatile and chaotic protests as the people of Iran are fighting back against the Iranian government’s regime, which many have branded “abusive” and “out of touch” with reality.
“They beat, arrest students and even throw tear gas into elementary schools,” an eyewitness to the devastating scenes in Iran explained in a Telegram chat. “And what’s worse is that some puppet administrators of the schools, contrary to their legal and humanitarian duty, cooperated with the repression forces and opened the doors of the schools to the security forces to threaten and detain the students and handed over the students’ photos and information.”
We could be witnessing a seismic event in world history. A woman’s protest against theocratic thuggery and oppression in Iran 🇮🇷 has become a Woman’s Revolution. Men with guns are joining the women. RISE UP !
All Americans should wish for a birth of freedom in Iran. https://t.co/p4PH0PNakc
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) October 9, 2022
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“And these ugly acts are carried out by the orders of the heads of regions, general managers, and with the green light of the incompetent minister of education.”
#Socialites, are you disturbed by the brutal acts that are taking place in Iran, and how do you think the country can find peace under such inhumane leadership?