More than 500 people have so far been murdered by the monstrous regime of killers in Iran in the first three months of the nationwide protests. “500 people” who need to be remembered, as individuals, by their names, and the true circumstances of their deaths. A handful of their stories are here: “Doctor Treating Protesters In Iran Dies In Suspicious Circumstances,” by Maryam Sinaee, Iran International, December
Claims by Iranian officials that a female doctor who died with unusual injuries committed “suicide” has sparked suspicions of yet another death in custody.
The family of Dr. Aida Rostami were contacted by the local police the day after her disappearance, December 12, a source close to the family told Iran Wire Friday and that she had died in a car accident. The police said the body was at the morgue of Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in the south of the capital Tehran….
The source also said medical examiners told the family, apparently in confidence, that she was not killed in a car accident, as the police had told the family, but that they were ordered not to reveal the true cause of death.
Sources close to the family have said when they insisted to view the body, they saw various injuries and bruises, including on her genitals, and broken arms. The lids of one of the eyes of the young doctor were stitched together, apparently to conceal the removal of the eyeball.
Think of the tortures Dr. Aida Rostami endured, including the loss of an eyeball, gouged out by her torturers before they finally killed her.
Judiciary authorities are now offering a completely different account of the circumstances of the young doctor’s death and have arrested a young man who they claim is suspected of throwing Dr. Rostami to her death from a pedestrian overpass after a quarrel over their relationship.
State media on Sunday published a video of the unnamed man who claimed Rostami was his girlfriend and that she had thrown herself from a pedestrian bridge after he left her and that he returned to find her body on the ground.
Like the “car accident” story, the Iranians have been declaring that many of the people, especially girls and women, they have been murdering to be “suicides.” In the case of Dr. Rostami, two new versions of her death were on offer. In the first, she threw herself off a bridge when she was jilted by her boyfriend. In the second, now favored by the authorities, she was killed by a former boyfriend, who on camera admitted – no doubt under threats from the regime to follow the assigned script – that he had thrown her off a bridge. But that story doesn’t explain the bruises around her genitals, nor her empty eye socket.
Donya Farhadi, an architecture student, whose body was recently found, was a protester.
Authorities have explained the death of several young protesters in the past three months in similar ways, including the suspicious deaths of two teenagers in Tehran and Karaj in late September and early October. Authorities claimed Nika Shakarami and Sarina Esmailzadeh had both jumped to their deaths from the top of buildings.
Many of the deaths have been similarly ascribed to suicide by jumping off the tops of buildings. This allows the injuries inflicted by their torturers to be ascribed to the impact of their fall.
The death of Aylar Haqqi (Haghi), a 23-year-old medical student, whose body was found in a construction site in Tabriz on November 15, was also explained in the same way [suicide], although her relatives claim she was shot with shotgun pellets before her injured body was thrown down from the top of a building on the site.
The relatives examine the corpses and, despite being told to keep silent, in their grief and rage, they reveal the truth. In the case of Aylar Haqqi, they found evidence she had been hit with shotgun pellets, and then, injured but still alive, she was thrown from the top of a building at a construction site.
Families or sources close to the families of these young women have all said they were subjected to pressure and intimidation by security and intelligence forces who wanted them to validate their “scripted” accounts of their deaths.
The families of the murdered girls and women are pressured — threatened — to accept the “received versions” of their daughters/sisters/mothers/wives’ deaths as “suicides.” Many do not comply. They are now beyond fear.
On Friday another young woman’s body was found on the banks of Karoun River in a village near Ahvaz in southwest Iran by the locals. Authorities claim Donya Farhadi, a twenty-one-year-old student had fallen into the river from a bridge. Local sources have said on social media that the young woman was an active participant in the recent student protests.
One more variant: Donya Farhadi was apparently tossed into river to drown (before or after torture is not specified); her death was ascribed to her an accidental “falling from a bridge” rather than to suicide.
Dr Rostami, 36, was last heard of on the evening of December 12 when she called her mother to say she was on her way to a wounded protester she was secretly treating and needed to buy more medical supplies.…
A busy medical doctor, in the midst of treating wounded protesters who need her desperately, and going on an errand to buy more medical supplies, does not fit anyone’s profile of a candidate for suicide.
An informed source told Iran International that Dr Rostami had been secretly treating protesters who feared arrest if they sought treatment for injuries and bullet wounds at hospitals, where agents usually wait to arrest protesters.
All these claimed “suicides” – these inexplicable falls from bridges and the tops of buildings – are undoubtedly murders by the Basij. All of these young women who supposedly committed suicide were in the midst of protesting themselves, or of treating the wounds of others who were protesters; they were in an exalted state of mind, the very opposite of depression, finally rebelling by the hundreds of thousands against the Iranian theocracy that has blighted so many lives. Each new “suicide” announced by officials in Tehran draws ever more scorn and fury at their attempts to hide their murders.
tim gallagher says
Iran is run by a vicious regime which is completely devoid of any humanity and any morality. It is no surprise that the scum in that regime would lie about the causes of death of the people that they are murdering. It would take some kind of miracle, but I hope that, somehow, this verminous regime does fall apart and the decent people involved in the demonstrations are successful.
Keith O says
The mullars have taken a page from the great Satans playbook and thought, If Killary Clinton can get away with calling them all suicides then we can do it too.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“In Iran, So Many of the Murdered Turn Out to Be ‘Suicides’”
In the United States, we have the murder of DHS whistleblower Philip Haney “officially” reported as a suicide.