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Covering #Iran & #MidEast, especially what MSM won't Have a passion for exposing Tehran apologists/lobbyists

Nov 23, 2022, 15 tweets

THREAD

1)
The @UNHumanRights Council will be holding a special session on #Iran tomorrow.

This thread will be compiling evidence of the regime’s human rights violations against the Iranian people during the ongoing protests of #IranRevolution2022.

@UNHumanRights 2)
Nov 21—Javanrud, W #Iran
Locals came under heavy machine gunfire by security forces.

"Even in Syria they didn't use DShK heavy machine guns against the people!" the voice says.

3)
The 12.7mm DShK high caliber heavy machine gun, built as an anti-air weapon in 1938 by the Soviet Union, has also been used as a heavy infantry machine gun. The bullet either kills an individual on the spot, or he/she will most likely die of the severe wound/blood loss.

4)
Nov 22—Javanrud, W #Iran
Local activists reported that the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was firing DShK rounds in the city.

The sound of the heavy gunfire can be heard at 0:15 in this video.

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Activists from different cities of #Iran have been providing images of 12.7mm DShK shells fired by the regime’s forces against defenseless people and unarmed, peaceful demonstrators.

6)
Nov 21—Piranshahr, NW #Iran
Scenes of IRGC and other security units resorting to intense gunfire against defenseless locals.

7)
Nov 20—Piranshahr, NW #Iran
Security units opened fire on people attending a funeral for a local killed by the mullahs' forces, according to activists.

8)
Nov 20—Piranshahr, NW #Iran
Security forces fired a barrage of bullets on protesters and bystanders, according to local activists.

9)
Someh Sara, Gilan Province, northern #Iran
Security forces opened fire on protesters using live bullets. This individual suffered severe spinal cord injury as a result.

10)
Kermanshah, W #Iran
This individual was shot by security forces using live ammunition.

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The regime’s security forces in #Iran are also using shotgun pellet rounds against protesters.

These are lethal weapons when used at close range, a normal practice of the regime’s security forces.

Many protesters have been blinded.

12)
Parsa Ghobadi, from a village near Kamyaran, W #Iran, was shot in the face on Monday, November 21, by security forces using shotgun pellet rounds.

He has lost both of his eyes at the age of 18.

13)
Kish Island, S #Iran
Rana, 20, says she was chanting slogans during a recent protest rally. A police commander said come over and talk. When she walked over, he shot at her with a pellet gun at 2 meters.
She now has 100+ pellets in her body and needed surgery.

14)
More cases of protesters being blinded and/or severely injured by #Iran’s security forces.

15)
One cannot cover all atrocities committed by #Iran’s regime during the ongoing #IranRevolution.
This thread ends here with a troubling report:

How Iran's security forces use rape to quell protests
"They choose the pretty ones..."

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