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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Oct 30, 2022 3:28 am

CIA, Mossad behind Iran riots

The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and the IRGC issued a joint statement regarding the latest developments in the country, exposing the US involvement in the matter

Intelligence obtained by Tehran indicates that the CIA and allied intelligence services planned a conspiracy in Iran against the Islamic Republic, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry and the IRGC's intelligence wing said Friday in a joint statement.

"The conspiracy's goal is to commit a crime against the Iranian people and the territorial integrity of Iran," the statement underlined. "The stage was set for an increase in external pressures."

This comes after a terrorist attack took place on Wednesday in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, which left 15 people dead.

Fifteen were killed and 40 were wounded in the terrorist attack on the Shah-e-Cheragh shrine in Shiraz on Wednesday. ISIS claimed responsibility on the same day for the attack.

"The main perpetrators were the CIA, the British and Saudi intelligence services, the Israeli Mossad, and the intelligence services of other countries," it read. "the planning and the execution of the majority of the riots were carried out by the Mossad in collaboration with terrorist organizations."

"Washington used in the past few years a malicious network of collaborating organizations and invested in various social sectors to create networks to breach [Iran]," the statement underlined.

"The Americans focused on creating a disturbance among the groups marginalized in the aftermath of the 2020 protests," according to the IRGC and the Intelligence Ministry. "The Americans set up dozens of projects to ensure that these affected groups stand in the face of the Islamic Republic of Iran."

The Iranian agencies explained that the US intelligence agencies allocate billions of dollars to find out who would be down to collaborate with western networks, which operate on the basis of changing the Iranian society, deviating the demands of the people, inciting violence, and creating false demands to produce dissatisfaction.

"Over the past few months, the enemy attempted to set the stage for riots by doubling its budget and using various means," the statement said. "The enemies paid famous individuals who have millions of followers to publish false information against Iran."

"One of the most significant goals of the Oslo conference held a while ago was to support the campaigns carried out under the banner of supporting the rights of women and minorities in Iran," the statement said. "The covert CIA talks on the sidelines of the Oslo conference with one of Iran's treacherous women focused on using any incident to incite riots."

The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) revealed on Friday that its intelligence unit had foiled a bomb attack in Shiraz.

Iranian state TV reported that “a bombing in Maali Abad Street in Shiraz was detected and foiled by IRGC intelligence”. Meanwhile, nationwide demonstrations were organized against the attack on the shrine in Shiraz following Friday prayers.

Iranian leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei has expressed condolences to the Iranian people following a deadly attack on a holy shrine in Shiraz, stressing that the perpetrators of the "heinous crime will face harsh punishment”.

In a letter, Khamenei said that the grief brought on by the loss of these pilgrims and the desecration of the shrine will not be compensated unless the perpetrators of these disastrous acts are tracked to wherever they came from, and decisive measures are taken against them.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:41 pm

Security forces wound dozens

Dozens of protesters were injured on Sunday as Iranian security forces cracked down on the hundreds gathered to protest against the killing of yet another Kurdish woman at the hands of the authorities in Tehran

The attack on protesters in Mariwan comes two days after 16 protesters were gunned down in the Baluchi area in southeast Iran by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), raising the number of people killed to 304 across the country, including 41 children.

Nasrin Ghaderi, a woman from the city of Mariwan who resided in Tehran, was hit several times in the head during a protest in the capital, sending her into a coma and later passing away in hospital on Saturday night. The family was prevented from burying her in Mariwan, as they had wished to do, and were forced by the intelligence services to have a funeral without anyone present.

Nasrin Ghaderi, a woman from the city of Mariwan who resided in Tehran, was hit several times in the head during a protest in the capital, sending her into a coma and later passing away in hospital on November 5, 2022. Photo: Soran Mansouria/Twitter

Nasrin Ghaderi, a woman from the city of Mariwan who resided in Tehran, was hit several times in the head during a protest in the capital, sending her into a coma and later passing away in hospital on November 5, 2022. Photo: Soran Mansouria/Twitter

The city in the Kurdish area of western Iran (Rojhelat) has seen continuous protests since the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini on September 16 at the hands of security forces. Mariwan has also witnessed strike after strike, with protesters chanting “death to Khamenei,” a reference to the country’s ultimate decision maker Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has dismissed the eight-week long demonstrations as a ploy from the US and Israel.

“Ghaderi family are our close family friends and our neighbor … the daughter of the family Nasrin Ghaderi was murdered with repeated baton strikes during protest in Tehran,” Soran Mansournia an activist whose brother was killed in the 2019 protests in Iran said. “The security forces stole the body on its way to Mariwan and pressured her father Shater Ahmad to say his daughter had a seizure or the security forces would bury the body in an undisclosed location.”

State-run news agency IRNA quoted Ghaderi’s father as saying that she had a seizure which was complicated by a recent bout of influenza.

Hengaw Organization for Human Rights which monitors violations in the Kurdish areas in west and northwest Iran reported that 35 people were wounded by the security forces. Videos from the scene published by the watchdog showed a large number of riot police in armored vehicles had surrounded the family house of Ghaderi.

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), another organization monitoring violations in the Kurdish areas said that the security forces used teargas and pellet guns, and that at least ten people were wounded.

The Kurdish areas have been the main engine of the protest movement with at least 61 Kurdish protesters killed including 11 children. More than 4,000 have been detained in the Kurdish areas.

Security forces on Friday carried out yet another massacre in the southeast of the country in the Baluchestan region where 16 protesters were gunned down with live ammunition, as depicted in dramatic videos taken by protesters in the town of Khash. Protesters were demanding answers about the September 30 massacre in which at least 92 Baluchi protesters were killed in the city of Zahedan.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Nov 17, 2022 1:47 am

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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Spokesperson of the US State Department told Kurdistan 24 that we condemn Iran's missile and drone attacks on the Kurdistan Region

"We have said this several times that Iran continues to destabilize the region," Vedant Patel, the US Deputy State Department spokesperson told Kurdistan24 in a press conference.

"We strongly decry Iran's missile and drone attacks on the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and call on Iran to stop these attacks," Patel said.

He also reaffirmed that the US continues its sanctions on Russia, "We will impose more sanctions on Russia and the previous sanctions will remain, Ukraine has the right to defend itself.”

The Deputy Spokesperson also expressed his concerns over the continued protests in Iran.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Nov 17, 2022 2:35 am

Terror attack on Iran market

Unknown assailants opened fire on Iranian security forces in the western city of Izeh, killing and wounding several people

Unknown assailants on Wednesday opened fire on Iranian police officers in the western city of Izeh in the Khuzestan Province, which led to the death of several Iranian police officers and injured several others, including civilians.

The attack on a marketplace in Izeh left five dead and 15 others injured, including a child, Iranian media reported, Iranian ISNA news agency reported.

The attack took place at the same time that a group of terrorists set fire to a seminary in the same city.

    Two western/Saudi backed terror teams on motorcycles carried out a deadly operation in Izeh city in Khuzestan. So far 15 martyrs confirmed. Some say up to 25 may have been killed. It is said security forces are among those murdered by the terrorists.

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This comes days after Iranian sources reported that the IRGC dismantled a terrorist band in the southwestern province of Khuzestan.

According to MEHR news, the IRGC found that the terror group was backed by an EU country.

The IRGC managed to contain the group before it carried out its operation.

Official sources revealed that the terrorists confessed to planning on carrying out a series of assassinations targeting a number of high-profile figures, as well as triggering massive riots similar to those that occurred in the cities of Zahedan and Ardabil.

In the same context, IRGC intelligence in Iran announced the arrest of 3 MKO terrorist cells in the riots before they carried out any acts in Khuzestan, Isfahan, and Fars.

The intelligence said that the terrorist units plan to recruit rioters, attack government and security centers, destroy property, and attempt to kill citizens.

Meanwhile, Tasnim News Agency reported that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps IRGC's Ground Force hammered separatist terror organizations' positions with numerous rocket launchers, precision-strike weaponry, and drones.

Iran's Foreign Ministry affirmed that military action against separatist groups is legitimate retaliation for their violations against Iran's security and borders, and was done to protect national security.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Nov 25, 2022 5:50 pm

Iran Guards in Kurdish areas

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have sent reinforcements to the country's protest-hit Kurdish areas in order to stop the infiltration of "terrorists" from neighbouring Iraq, a general said in a report on Friday

Tehran told the United Nations on Thursday that it had no choice but to act in self-defence by striking Kurdish rebel groups in Iraq, which it accuses of stoking protests back home over the death of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has launched missile and drone strikes on the bases of armed groups in northern Iraq twice in recent days, according to Iranian media reports.

"Armoured units and special forces of the Revolutionary Guards army are moving to the western and northwestern borders of the country," General Mohammad Pakpour, who heads the Guards' land forces, was quoted as saying by the Tasnim news agency.

"This movement of ground forces aims to strengthen the units located on the border and prevent the infiltration of terrorists affiliated with separatist groups operating in Iraq's northern region," he said.

On Tuesday, Pakpour had advised residents near "the bases of terrorist groups to evacuate in order to avoid injury during the operations of the Guards", the ideological arm of Iran's military.

Kurdish groups from Iran have long inhabited areas of northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, previously waging an armed insurrection against the Islamic republic.

Iran has repeatedly accused them of fomenting nationwide unrest that flared after Amini died in custody on September 16, following her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach of the country's dress code for women.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Nov 26, 2022 12:53 pm

Armored units on Kurdish borders

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Friday announced that they were strengthening their forces on the borders with the Kurdistan Region through deploying armored units and special forces, aimed at preventing exiled Kurdish opposition groups from transporting weapons into the country

“The IRGC ground forces are resolutely dealing with the factors of insecurity in the region by strengthening internal forces in the border area of the western and northwestern provinces of the country with the cooperation of the zealous local people,” Iranian state media cited Commander of the IRGC's ground forces Mohammad Pakpour as saying.

Pakpour cited “movements” of Kurdish opposition groups on the borders and in the country’s westers Kurdish areas (Rojhelat) as reasoning for the decision to deploy armored divisions, accusing the groups of creating “mischief” and smuggling arms into the country.

Iran has struck bases of Kurdish opposition parties in the Kurdistan Region at least four times within the past two months, accusing the parties of encouraging and arming the ongoing protests at home.

Khalil Nadiri, spokesperson for the Kurdistan Freedom Party, told Rudaw’s Hemin Baban that the IRGC have deployed tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and drones to the Iranian borders with the Kurdistan Region in recent days, and have also increased their forces in the Kurdish cities of Baneh, Marivan, and Piranshahr.

The Guards are responsible for the harsh crackdown that is ongoing in Rojhelat where at least 40 protesters have died in the space of a week.

US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported that as of Friday morning, 445 people including 63 children, in addition to 57 members of the security forces. In the Kurdish areas, the number is estimated to be at 98 protesters including 10 children.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Dec 18, 2022 1:51 am

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Kurd from Rojhelat confirmed as world’s shortest man

The Guinness World Records on Wednesday announced that it had confirmed a Kurdish man, measuring 65.24 cm, from Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat) as the shortest man in the world

Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh, 20, is from the Kurdish city of Bukan. The Guinness World Records said on its website that it measured Ghaderzadeh three times over the course of 24 hours in Dubai, “resulting in the accurate record height.”

“He is almost 7 cm (2.7 in) shorter than the previous record holder, 36-year-old Edward ‘Niño’ Hernandez (Colombia),” said the records body.  

Ghaderzadeh’s parents accompanied him to Dubai. His father, Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh, was cited by the website as saying that his son does not have mental issues but his “continuing treatment and my son’s physical weakness are the main reasons why he stopped studying.” 

The new shortest man in the world has been unable to attend school but has recently learnt how to write his name. 

The tallest man in the world, Sultan Kosen, is also a Kurd. He is from the Kurdish province of Mardin province in southeast Turkey (Bakur). 

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon Jun 05, 2023 4:30 pm

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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Sanandaj province, located in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhilat), has a population of less than 2% of Iran's total population and yet produces more than 62% of Iran's total strawberries

This year, the price of strawberries has fallen compared to previous years. Since there is no factory to buy their products directly, the farmers of Sanandaj sell their produce to wholesale merchants.

Known as the heart of Iran's strawberry production, Sanandaj province produces about 75,000 tons of strawberries annually from 3,600 hectares of agricultural land in the province.

Sanandaj province's strawberry production exceeds the local needs of its residents and due to the lack of factories to store their product, farmers are forced to send their products to central Iranian cities. Additionally, international sanctions prevent farmers from sending their strawberries abroad.

The Iranian economy has regressed since international efforts on removing sanctions ceased in May 2018. With a recent rapprochement with long-time rival Saudi Arabia, Iranians hope this will be the catalyst to jumpstart their economy.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Jun 20, 2023 4:13 pm

20 foreign agencies in Iran riots

Brigadier General Mohammad Kazemi, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps IRGC's Intelligence Organization, revealed that the intelligence agencies of 20 foreign countries were involved in the recent riots which swept over the country

“Among the countries that have been active in these areas are the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Canada, Belgium, Austria, Albania, Australia, Iceland, Italy, Kosovo, Norway, Bahrain, New Zealand, as well as the occupying Zionist regime,” he said in an interview with Khamenei.ir.

In a report by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the highlights of Kazemi's interview were synthesized.

French diplomats in Tehran worked to gather on-filed information in regard to the progress of the riots as well as the condition of the Islamic Republic's security apparatus; as well as exchanging information with intelligence officers

Several European and Non-European foreigners living in Iran were employed to gather information which led to the arrest of 40 individuals from one neighboring country (a French-Irish national was arrested in Khorasan Razavi province, and a German national was arrested in Ardabil province)

    The CIA supported the creation of cyberspace platforms for disseminating news of the riots as well as to facilitate efforts to send technical equipment, and escape tools, and lifting restrictions on mobile communication devices

    The CIA pitched the idea of forming a joint team with the Israeli Mossad and the British MI6 to target Iranian scientists

    Meetings between the Emirati and Israeli intelligence agencies were regularly held to discuss means of supporting the protests.
Iran’s High Council for Human Rights (HCHR) published a report late May that detailed various instances of violence against Iranian security forces during recent riots in the country. The report highlights the role Western countries, their agents, and collaborators had in orchestrating and directing the riots through the promotion of propaganda campaigns that took advantage of Mahsa Amini’s death in September 2022.

Press TV had direct access to the 83-page report and revealed some of its details.

According to the report, rioters employed tactics of extreme violence against Iranian civilians and security forces. For instance, two students were stabbed to death by rioters in the city of Mashhad. In addition, 7,000 officers were injured in the line of duty during the riots, including some who were brutally murdered.

The report stresses the fact that security forces were instructed not to carry any deadly weapons or firearms, in an attempt to curb further agitation and provocation against the Islamic Republic. This opened the door for rioters to brutally torture and murder some security officers.

As stated in the report, “The death and injury of members of security forces come as, according to official instructions and available documents, they did not even carry any firearms to defend themselves against rioters and armed terrorists. On the other hand, rioters and terrorists took to the streets with firearms and shot security and police forces and even passers-by, killing many of them.”

Furthermore, the report sheds light on various cases, in which unarmed Iranian security forces were sadistically tortured, gunned down, and stabbed to death by terrorists.

Reza Zare’ Moayyedi, Davoud Abdollahi, Esmaeil Cheraghi, Seyyed Hamidreza Hashemi, Mohammad Amin Abdarshekar, Ali Beik Darzi, and Mohammad Amin Aref were all gunned down by armed rioters.

The Council revealed that the security forces were able to recover and confiscate 8314 weapons from rioters, including 6314 firearms.

Others were stabbed to death, like Hossein Ojaghi, Mohammad Rasoul Doust-Mohammadi, Mehdi Zahedlouei, Hossein Zeinalzadeh, and Danial Rezazadeh Motlagh.

In the case of Arman Aliverdi and Seyyed Rouhollah Ajamian, the two were ruthlessly tortured to death.

When put into context these events cannot be viewed as isolated incidents of violence. Indeed, they fall under a well-worked plot to cause civil unrest in Iran, in an attempt to serve separatist agendas in the country.

On February 5, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei pardoned or commuted the sentences of a large number of rioters. He also issued a general amnesty on the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, which covered all prisoners except for murderers and terrorists.

It is noteworthy that countries that have condemned Iran for the security measures it adopted during periods of unrest, such as France, have dealt viciously with recent protests.
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PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:06 pm

Man detained for riots

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Saturday detained a dual national suspected of organizing “riots and unrest” in the country, state media reported, amid an increased security presence to curb protests a year after the death of a young Kurdish woman in police custody

“The mentioned person had brought several smartphones, SIM cards, and a sum of dollars,” IRNA reported, adding that the suspect was arrested by the IRGC’s intelligence organization in the city of Karaj, about 50 kilometers west of the capital Tehran.

The dual national, whose second country was unidentified, was accused of “trying to organize riots and unrest,” IRNA added.

Iran has previously sought to undermine the protest movement by claiming that foreign powers, particularly Israel and the US, are behind the unrest. (probably true)

There are a number of dual and foreign nationals being held in Iranian prisons on charges of spying for foreign governments, with rights groups accusing Tehran of using them as bargaining chips to gain concessions from world powers.

The arrest comes amid heightened security in Tehran as security forces attempt to thwart planned protests on the anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Zhina (Mahsa) Amini in custody of Iran’s morality police.

Amini was arrested on September 16 for allegedly wearing a lax hijab. Her subsequent mysterious death sparked nationwide protests that posed the biggest threat to the Iranian regime in 40 years. Protesters chanting “Jin Jiyan Azadi” (Women, Life, Freedom) began by calling for greater freedoms, the movement grew into an antigovernment revolution as the authorities initiated a brutal crackdown with violence. Hundreds of people were killed and thousands arrested.

For weeks in the lead up to the anniversary of Amini’s death, scores of family members of protesters who were killed were arrested or warned not to hold any commemoration event, and security forces have been deployed across restive provinces.

On Saturday, Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, which reports human rights violations in Iran’s western Kurdish areas, reported that Iranian security forces had opened fire on protesters in a neighborhood in Saqqez, the birthplace of Amini, while surveillance drones patrolled the skies.

A large scale security presence was also seen in other Kurdish-majority areas in Iran, Hengaw said.

On Tuesday, Iran’s judiciary said that it had detained a Swedish national for “committing crimes in the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

The arrest also comes as Iran and the United States prepare to undertake a Qatar-mediated prisoner exchange, with will include five prisoners freed on both sides as well as the unfreezing of $6 billion of Iranian funds held in South Korea.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Oct 10, 2023 10:51 am

Rojhelati workers in South Kurdistan

SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - Fleeing the country’s crumbling economy and shrinking job market, hundreds of youth from Iran’s western Kurdish provinces (Rojhelat) have migrated towards Southrrn Kurdistan in recent years, only to find themselves swallowed by a merciless void of unsafe work environments, lack of official residence, and overwhelming disrespect and discrimination

The depreciation of the Iranian toman, the COVID pandemic, and crippling US sanctions have resulted in mass unemployment and accelerating inflation rates in Iran in recent years, especially in Rojhelat. These unfavorable circumstances have led hundreds of Iranian and Rojhelati youth to go to Iraq and the Kurdistan Region in search of job opportunities and means to make a living.

A large part of Iranian workers arrive in Southern Kurdistan on tourist visas, disqualifying them from many fundamental rights such as residence. Some are only bound to their employers through verbal agreements rather than through official contracts, meaning they have no legal leg to stand on in cases of mistreatment.

After a long day’s work, the exhausted migrant workers, who barely earn a living wage, walk back to their 3,000-dinars-a-night motel rooms (less than two dollars), which, in addition to lacking any form of basic hygiene, are often shared among seven people.

Many stop by the street food vendors near Sulaimani’s Grand Mosque for a cheap sandwich, some tea, and a smoke.

Fardin Kawani from Sanandaj has been working as a tiler in Sulaimani for the past four years. He is 38-years-old but the wrinkles on his face and the white hairs on his head, physical traces of the overwhelming stress and fatigue that characterize his daily life, make him appear way older than he actually is.

Brushing the dust off his clothes while lighting a cigarette, Kawani spoke to Rudaw English about his experience working in the Kurdistan Region and the overall excruciating conditions of Rojhelati workers who embarked on the same journey as him.

“I used to have a good job back at home, but I had to come here four years ago due to the inflation and the economy. I come to South Kurdistan on a tourist visa and I go back to Iran every month in order to renew it,” said Kawani.

Kawani had a reasonably steady work experience during the first two years of his time in the Kurdistan Region, before his biggest fear materialized last year, when his employer refused to pay him for over six months and then threatened to kill him if he argued further.

“I worked for nearly six months and each month he would have a new excuse as to why he could not pay me, and I trusted him. I had worked the equivalent of around 5,000 dollars. Then, one day, my wife got sick and I had to go back to Sanandaj, but I had not paid my rent for a couple of months. I asked my employer if he could cover it for me, he got angry and said ‘absolutely not,’ before taking out his gun and threatening to shoot me if I argued with him.”

Kawani added that he filed a complaint against the employer for his actions, but since he had no official contract there was no document proving that he worked for him in the first place.

The tiler took a pause and cleared his throat as his eyes filled tears before continuing.

“So I ignored him. What else could I have done? It is true that people here are Kurds too, but I have no one here and I am helpless. I can only hope that God punishes him for what he did to me.”

The dark alleys next to the mosque draw a harrowing picture. Dozens of young men can be seen lying on the ground without any pillows or blankets, opting to sleep on the cold streets, just to save up the extra 3,000 dinars and send it to their families back in Rojhelat.

27-year-old Behzad hails from Marivan and has been working in Sulaimani for the past four years. “Walking down the alleys lined with these old motels, you can find at least 10 people sleeping on each side of the road.”

“It is not only the [Rojhelat] men that came here, a lot of women also came and are now working as prostitutes,” Behzad told Rudaw English.

He says nothing pains him more than being ridiculed and disrespected for being associated with the Rojhelati sex workers.

“When my employer, who is my age, brings around an Iranian girl for fun and then brags about it to me, it is like plunging a dagger through my heart, but there is nothing I can do. Such is life. Once you are down on your knees, everyone starts taking advantage of you.”

There are nearly 100,000 foreign workers in South Kurdistan, according to data from the Region’s Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs last year, yet no official figure exists when it comes to the number of Rojhelati or Iranian workers in the Region.

Many Rojhelati workers have lost their lives or suffered lifelong injuries after tragic accidents endured while working unsafe jobs in South Kurdistan. The victims of such accidents are often not entitled to any compensation as they have no contracts or insurance.

Written and translated by Chenar Chalak

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Re: EASTERN KURDISTAN NEWS

PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Oct 28, 2023 1:15 pm

Kurdish Teen Beaten for Violation
    of Iran Hijab Laws Dies
Armita Garawand, the Kurdish teenager who fell into a coma after reportedly being assaulted by Iranian morality police for not wearing a hijab earlier this month, passed away on Saturday, according to media reports

"Unfortunately, she went into a coma for some time after suffering from brain damage. She died a few minutes ago," IRNA reported on Saturday.

Last week, media reports indicated that Gerawand was brain dead after falling into a coma in a Tehran hospital.

Armita Garawand, a 16-year-old Kurdish adolescent originally from Kermanshah, was a resident of Tehran. Earlier this month, while on her way to school, Garawand reportedly faced a "physical assault" from the country's morality police on the metro for not wearing a hijab.

Garawand had been in a comatose state in a Tehran hospital before she was pronounced dead today. However, Iranian state media suggested that her condition resulted from fainting due to skipping breakfast and experiencing low blood pressure.

This incident serves as a tragic reminder of the passing of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who lost her life while in the custody of morality police in Iran in September of last year. Amini's death triggered widespread public protests throughout Iran, demanding comprehensive economic, social, and political reforms in the country.

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