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Although the intensity of the demonstrations and the state repression of the security forces of the The Ayatollahs’ regime appears to have been reduced in recent days, the people of Iran must face new obstacles. Some families of the thousands of dead in the massive protests that have taken place throughout the country have denounced that the authorities demand large sums of money to deliver the bodies of your loved ones.
According to BBC Persianthe Persian service of the British channel, which has collected testimonies from those affected, in some places the bodies that are piling up in hospitals and funeral homes are not handed over to relatives unless they pay amounts of money that have been estimated between 700 million and 1,000 million Tomans, between 5,000 and 7,000 dollars.
Unaffordable payments in most cases since the monthly salaries of workers in the Islamic Republic are less than 100 dollars. Precisely the economic crisis and inflation They were the spark that ignited the wave of massive protests since the end of last year, provoking one of the largest social mobilizations against the regime in its almost five decades of life.
Video of the protests in Iran.
According to the sources cited by BBC Persianthere have been cases that hospital staff alert relatives in advance “so that they remove the bodies before the security forces try to collect.”
The chain also includes reports that at the Behesht-e Zahra morgue in Tehran, authorities offered to release bodies free of charge. if relatives said they belonged to the Basij militiaassociated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and who died as martyrs at the hands of the protesters.
The repression that has been experienced in recent days in the streets throughout the country has been brutal. According to data from the NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR) published this Wednesday, the death toll from the violence carried out against millions of protesters, spurred by inflation and discontent with the Islamic Republic, now amounts to more than 3,000 people. Around two tens of thousands have been arrested.
Another relative of a victim reported that in the capital “several families, fearing that the authorities could retain or bury the bodies without their knowledge, forced the door of the morgue and They took the bodies out of the ambulancesand then they guarded them in the hospital courtyard until they could be transported with private ambulances.”
The threats of Donald Trump of a military intervention in Iran due to the escalation of repression has forced the ayatollahs to contain their security forces and stop scheduled executions of several hundred detainees. Israel and the Arab countries of the Gulf have mediated with the president of the United States to prevent, for the moment, an offensive.