Official media reported yesterday that four Iranian police officers died in an “accident” in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, where sporadic clashes have been taking place for weeks.
“The accident, which took place at a traffic police station on the Iranshahr-Pembur highway, resulted in the death of four policemen,” said Alireza Sayyad, chief of the Pampur City Police, noting that the accident was “under investigation.” Bambur is located in Sistan-Baluchistan province, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, where a recent series of violent incidents has killed dozens of people, including members of the security forces.
Tensions in Sistan and Balochistan come as protests have been taking place in Iran since September 16 amid the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, days after she was arrested by the vice police in Tehran, amid her failure to adhere to a strict dress code. -code.
Dozens of people have died on the sidelines of the protests, including security forces, and hundreds of others have been arrested in anti-government movements that officials are calling “riots.”
Zahedan, the center of Sistan-Baluchistan, on September 30 witnessed the bloody events that killed dozens of people, including members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Since then, the governorate has often witnessed weekly protest rallies and tensions following Friday prayers.
As the demonstrations that began in Iran in mid-September to condemn the murder of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, approached its second month, calls for more protests were renewed yesterday.
Youth from the regions of Tehran, Lorestan and Tabriz have called for new demonstrations across the country, and these groups have confirmed in statements posted on communication sites that they, they say, “will not stop until complete victory.” She also stressed that she “will remain on the streets until the regime of the Islamic Republic is overthrown.”
