The Iranian regime has been bashing in the heads of protesters, and just now has even beaten to death a 12-year-old middle-schooler, as the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) hopes to crush the spirit of the indomitable disaffected Iranians who now cry “Death to the Dictator!” more than they do “Woman, Life, Freedom!” The regime thinks it can murder its way out of the nationwide protests that are now in its seventh week, having spread to more than 100 Iranian cities. So far, the show of murderous force hasn’t worked. If anything, after every death of an innocent, the anger grows and the protests swell. The regime feels it must increase its violence, and that in turn leads to still more implacable hatred from below.
One of the latest victims, Parvis Hamnava, was a middle-school girl – meaning she was only 12 or 13. She was beaten to death by Iranian police in her classroom, in front of her classmates. Her crime? Possessing a torn-up photo of the Supreme Leader. Her death has been given much attention by the protest movement in Iran. It was the subject of a preliminary report on at Jihad Watch here. The full story is here: “Iranian teen girl beaten to death by police for tearing Khomeini’s photo – report,” by Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post, October 31, 2022:
An Iranian girl in middle school was beaten to death after police officers found a torn-up photo of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini in one of her schoolbooks, a local news outlet in the Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Haalvsh, reported on Sunday night.The girl, identified as Parvis Hamnava, was at her school in Iranshahr in the Sistan and Baluchestan Province, when security forces entered the school in order to search the books of the students, discovering the torn-up photo in Hamnava’s textbook. According to Haalvsh, security forces severely beat Hamnava in front of the other students and she later died of her wounds in the hospital. The incident reportedly took place last week.The security forces reportedly forced Hamnava’s family and teachers to promise that they would not speak to the press about the incident before handing over her body to them to bury.
This is nothing new for the Iranian security forces, well-versed in every sort of atrocity. In every case when they have murdered a young person, they turn the screws on family members, threatening them if they do not remain silent or, in the alternative, if they refuse to repeat the made-up story about the victim having died of a “heart attack” (lots of perfectly healthy 18-to-22-year-olds, including Mahsa Amini herself, have suddenly had these fatal heart attacks) or from the effects of a pre-existing condition that no one in the family had an inkling of, or in several cases, were said to have committed suicide, just after having defiantly torn off their hijabs.
The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency rejected the report, claiming that there was no such student in the Iranian education system and that no students were killed in Iranshahr.
This is a new twist. Instead of attributing a victim’s death to a heart attack, or a long-hidden brain condition, now the IRGC has begun to deny the very existence of the victim in question. But in this case, the girl was beaten almost to death in front of her entire class, and died soon after in the hospital; now all the members of that class will also have to be threatened to keep quiet. So will Hamnava’s teachers, the school principal, everyone she knew in town, everyone in her family, in an ever-expanding network, a widening gyre, of forced silence and lies. They will have to go along with the story just concocted by her killers: she doesn’t exist. Parvis Hamnava disappears into non-existence, and becomes The Girl Who Never Was. News of this girl’s killing has spread across the province of Sistan-Baluchestan, where she was from. The Baluchi protests have taken on a separatist cast, with “Death to the Dictator!” now including cries for Baluch independence, which is the very last thing they want to hear in Tehran. Ethnic separatism is the soft underbelly of the regime. Half the population of Iran consists of non-Persian minorities, including Kurds, Arabs, Azeris, and Baluchis. If any or some or all of them were to rise in revolt against their Persian overlords, the very country of Iran could deliquesce in a fissiparous frenzy.
Amid the large scale protests that have swept Iran in the past six weeks, Iranian forces have violently cracked down on protesters in Sistan and Baluchestan, especially in Zahedan, located north of Iranshahr. Dozens of protesters have reportedly been killed by Iranian forces in recent weeks in Zahedan.
It was not “dozens of protesters” who were killed in the Baluchi city of Zahedan, but many more. At least eighty-two were mowed down in the first massacre, on September 30, known now as “Bloody Friday,” and another eight protesters were murdered a few weeks later, for a total of ninety.
A number of teenagers have been killed amid the protests, with multiple cases of teenage protesters beaten severely or even to death by security forces reported throughout Iran.Students across Iran continued protesting on Monday, as Iran indicted over a thousand protesters, with many already receiving prison sentences or even the death sentence. The charges placed against the arrested protesters included assaulting security forces and setting fire to public property.Many students also received text messages informing them that they were expelled or suspended from their universities due to their participation in protests and banning them from entering university property. Slogans and signs against the suspensions were seen at a number of student protests on Monday.“If students are suspended, the university will be closed,” chanted students at the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran in footage shared on social media.
Amirkabir is one of Iran’s best universities for training in the sciences. Protests that have been put down with clubs and live fire at many other universities, including the Iranian equivalent of MIT, Shafir Technological University. What will it mean for the development of science and technology in Iran if the very best students in those fields have their educations interrupted in such a violent fashion, or for those student protesters who are sent to prison and may not be allowed to ever resume their university studies? Has the regime thought through what its wholesale assault on the universities – dozens of them are now in an uproar of protest — for Iran’s economy, not to speak of the catastrophic effects on Iranian culture? Think of the effect on Iran it it puts its best students behind bars, or prevents them from enrolling in classes. Think of how many will now manage to flee their unhappy land, and to join the swelling ranks of Iranian exiles in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Stockholm, Berlin, depriving Iran of some of its best brains.
Students at Beheshti University were seen in footage shared online chanting “Freedom, freedom, freedom.”On Sunday, at Al-Zahra University in Tehran, female students chanted “I will kill, I will kill, whoever killed my sister.”
The protest chants are becoming more violent in their threats against the regime. “Woman, life, freedom” was the first defiant cry, but has ever more frequently been replaced by “Death to the Dictator!” and, still more worrisome for the regime, by the threatening “I will kill, I will kill, whoever killed my sister.”
Family and friends also marked the funerals and the 40th day of mourning for a number of protesters, including one named Irfan Khazai and a 16-year-old named Sarina Saedi. At Khazai’s grave, protesters chanted “death to the dictator,” according to footage shared by the 1500tasvir account.At Saedi’s grave, protesters chanted “Kurdistan, Kurdistan, the graveyard of fascists,” according to footage shared by the Hengaw Human Rights Organization.
Now we have Kurds in Iranian Kurdistan chanting explicitly nationalist sentiments about “Kurdistan, Kurdistan, the graveyard of fascists.” This is correctly understood by the rulers in Tehran as a Kurdish separatist slogan. Those uttering it don’t just want to change the regime; they want out of the state of Iran altogether, so as to eventually be joined by other Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, in an independent Kurdistan. There are more than 40 million Kurds, after all. They are the largest people in the world without a state of their own. They are suppressed in ways little and big, from the suppression of the Kurdish language and culture in Turkey to outright genocide in Iraq where, in Operation Anfal, Saddam Hussein murdered 182,000 Kurds. The Kurdish people are spread among four countries – Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria – where they now live in various states of unhappiness.
In the same way that they worry about the Kurds, the Iranians have to worry about the ethnic Baluchis, whose protests in Sistan-Baluchistan, in southeastern Iran, have started to include a separatist message. Such calls for Baluchi autonomy, or even for an independent Baluchistan that could unite the three million Baluchis in Iran with the 7.5 million Baluchis just across the border in Pakistan, the rulers in Tehran know, constitute a real threat to the nation-state of Iran, just as the Kurdish protesters do, who so far have borne the brunt of Iran’s crackdown. The Iranian army can suppress tens of thousands of nonviolent unarmed protesters, but would find it much harder to put down armed separatists – Kurds, Baluchis, Arabs, Azeris — especially if several of those ethnic groups, and ideally all four, coordinated their uprisings. Each group should be able to count on outside support: the Iranian Kurds can count on help from the well-armed Kurds in Iraq; the Baluchis in Iran can count on their Baluchi brothers, across the border in Pakistan, the Azeris should be able to rely n the Azerbaijani military next door, and the Arabs of Khuzestan will be helped by their fellow Arabs in the Sunni states of the Gulf, with plenty of weapons and money. What an opportunity, those Sunni Arabs must be thinking, to smite the hated Iranians. Surely this prospect keeps Iranian military planners up at night.
On Saturday, IRGC commander-in-chief Hossein Salami warned that “today is the end of the riots” and told students not to go out to the streets anymore.Salami blamed the US and Israel for the riots and claimed that protesting students were being influenced by them.
Oh dear. He said “today is the end of the riots” on October 30, and nobody cared; they kept protesting. And when the IRGC’s Commander-in-Chief, Hossein Salami, blamed the US and Israel for the protests that he called “riots,” nobody believed him. The Iranians have gone to that well too often. Such a claim merely made him even more of a laughingstock. Everyone in Iran knows that no Americans or Israelis were needed to encourage Iranian women, fed up with the morality police, to tear off their hijabs and burn them; no foreign agents were whispering in Iranian ears to call for “women, life, freedom” or “death to the dictator!” Blaming the Great Satan and the Little Satan, a staple of the regime’s rhetoric, has become a cause for ridicule.
The beating of a middle-school student to the point of death – she died a little later, in a hospital — in front of her classmates, has made a deep impression on Iranians. And so has the preposterous, hopeless, frantic denial of her very existence.
The regime is now searching for some way to divert the Iranian public’s attention away from the protests. What can they be planning? Here’s what might be in the works: an attack, directly from Iran, instead of from the Houthis it has used in the past, on Saudi oil installations and airbases. Or perhaps they are mulling over another attack on the American base at Erbil. After all, the last time Iran attacked that base, with twelve ballistic missiles, on January 8, 2020, the Americans placed more sanctions on Iranian companies and individuals, but did not strike back militarily. Salami may be thinking that the Iranians can get away with such an attack again, without enduring an attack in response. I hope he’s wrong.
PMK says
Iran has nothing to fear from the Biden Administration, even if it did attack Erbil.
Walter Sieruk says
That dictator/tyrant Rasis deserves no respect at all.
As seen by how those callous vicious malicious misogynist “police” , thugs in uniform, had beaten to death, cold -blooded murder, of a teenage girl. , only because she down a picture of Khamenei. That malice- filled murderous action by those Islamic police further proves the wise saying to be true , Which is the “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
Just thinks about it, what terrible cowards those Islamic “police.” hooligans have proven themselves to be ganging up together, all against a lone young girl, who wasn’t, yet even 20 years old.
That brutal cruel deadly affront and heinous crime the dictatorship Ebrahim Rasis who is a sadistic cruel misogynistic murderous fiend, and a blatant violator of human rights in and despicable vicious ways,
Rasis is behind many ruthless abuses of basic rights of human beings., especially girls and women.
For Rasis had over a hundred people executed in the short span of time, from January to March, this very year.
For example, of the many heinously evils outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls.
As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [1]
This affront against human rights is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
Walter Sieruk says
That vicious murder of this teenage girl of those thugs in uniform who are the Islamic “police’ of that abomination of a tyranny of Iran is a most unconscionable evil of that misogyny filled Islamic tyranny of Iran.
That cruel vicious murder of this young girl by the hooligan “police” of that Islamic tyranny is the result of that anti-female religion of Islam.
As revealed by a scholar of Islam who revealed in her book “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islam ideology.” Furthermore, the author also exposed that `” Women is Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 171,172.
Walter Sieruk says
That heinously cruel and murderous Islamic tyranny of Iran is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women.
The murder of this teenage girl by Iran’s Islamic “police”, vicious deadly thugs in uniform, is very sad and tragic and that horrendous evil of her being murdered is because of the oppressive vicious brutal cruel and deadly misogynistic Islamic regime of Iran.
That action of male Muslims who are the officials murdering defenseless, helpless women in cold blood is a heinous and hideous has occurred before and if that murderous Islamic regime isn’t overthrown such wicked killing will continue.
Another example of such callous despicable heartless anti-female evil is when a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend, and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1]
That was a clear-cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
Walter Sieruk says
This is another young girl viciously and maliciously murdered by the Islamic “police” of that bloody and demonic Muslims regime of Iran.
Likewise the many murders of the Iranian protester by those in power in Iran in that Islamic horrendously tyrannical oppressive misogynistic regime of Iran ,as Ebrahim Raisi and other higher ups, as Khamenei in that heinous tyranny is despicable unconscionable.
Second, there is an old Latin saying that the Iranian people need to heed regarding those wicked oppressive tyrants that they exist under. That saying is ‘nil carborundum illegitimi” Which means “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
For Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei along with the other ayatollahs and mullahs who al have such terrible influence in Iran’s parliament are all indeed, bastards. Meaning they are all, as it’s been termed “Bastards of the Devil.”
For such dictators who viciously oppress the people are a reflection of the Bible’s book of Ecclesiastes which in 4:1 reads” I saw the oppressed – and they have no comforter: power was on the side of their oppressors.” [N.I.V.]
Likewise, in Proverbs 15:15 reads “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.”
Raja says
The mullah regime has nothing to lose as the world is just watching the show there. Unfortunately for the Iranians, the opposition is not organized, nor is there any concerted action from any one group. Though this “counter revolution” is not going to wane, we don’t know if it will translate itself any good for the poor Iranians.
Westman says
I was teaching Iranian physics students in the US, in the 1970s, when the unrest leading to overthrow of the Shah was just beginning. These rumors of unjustified killings by the regime grew like wildfire and the students began to describe them during our lab sessions. After the “revolution”, Iranian students were ordered back to Iran from all the US universities. I’ve always wondered how many those promising kids died in the 8-years war with Iraq.
It appears that another revolution is in the making though it will require Persian-Iranians to cast off control by an Arab-created religion. If the IRGC decides its future survival depends on citizens, the Mullahs, as government, are finished. The fuse is lit. Due to modern communications this revolution should develop faster than the previous. Perhaps we’ll see an Iranian version of the Nuremberg Trials.
Scotsman48 says
Why is there an American Military Base in Erbil in the first place is a question few people ask.
Let these people sort themselves out just as Europeans did after WW2, just as America did after Independence.
Close all these American bases around the World and stop being the ego tripping self righteous ”saviors” of Planet Earth and start protecting America..
.Look South for a start.
America First and the rest of the World can get in line.
Why is Uncle Sam using Taxpayers Dollars to defend the World from itself.
Trump had the USA energy independent and now Old Joe is begging for Oil from countries that despise us because he has almost emptied the Oil Reserves of the USA.
Our country has gone to hell… Donald J.Trump.
I concur.