Human rights group says military helicopters carried members of the Revolutionary Guards to quell the protests in Kurdish city of Mahabad
Iran’s clerical rulers have stepped up suppression of persistent anti-government protests in the country’s Kurdish region, deploying troops and killing at least four demonstrators on Sunday, social media posts and rights groups said.
The Norway-based human rights group Hengaw said military helicopters carried members of the widely feared Revolutionary Guards to quell the protests in the Sunni-dominated Kurdish city of Mahabad. Prominent Sunni cleric Molavi Abdolhamid, a powerful dissenting voice in the Shi’ite-ruled Islamic Republic, called on security forces to refrain from shooting at people in Mahabad.
Iran’s state media said calm had been restored in the area. But activists and Hengaw said on Twitter that “the resistance” continued in several Kurdish cities.The uprising has turned into a popular revolt by furious Iranians from all layers of society, posing one of the boldest challenges to the clerical leaders since the 1979 Islamic revolution that swept them to power.
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