Iran: Police station burnt down over the killing of 19-year-old Kurdish man by regime agents

The Iranian regime has started the new year with assassinations in several cities. On the night of Wednesday 22 March, at the Karim Abad checkpoint, three kilometres from Baneh, a 19-year-old Kurdish man named Behzad Azizi was shot dead without warning. He died after arriving at the hospital. 

Revolutionary Guard officers refused to hand over the body to his family. Angry people protested in front of the hospital and then attacked Karim Abad's police station and set it on fire. The frightened officers fled the area. 

Hossein Al-e-Ali, 31, who was thrown from the fourth floor of his house in Bandar Abbas last week by regime agents, died in hospital on 21 March, the first day of the Iranian New Year. Hossein Al-e-Ali was wanted by agents for participating in demonstrations and had been in hiding for some time. 

On March, law enforcement officers killed Issa Rochandel Doghanli, 39, a fellow Qashqai man, in Qeshlaq Doghanlou (of Faryab). At his funeral, which took place on Sunday 19 March, angry people chanted "down with Khamenei", "down with the Pasdaran" and "Qashqai prefer death to humiliation". 

On the other hand, the insurgent youth are targeting a centre of robbery and corruption in Ardebil. On 18 March 2023, insurgent youth in Ardebil targeted a foundation under Khamenei, the Martyrs' Foundation, "which is a centre of robbery and corruption of the mullahs and pasdaran. It is a centre that abuses without limit the families of the victims and maimed of the eight years of war against Iraq". The explosion echoed throughout the area.

Hamid Enayat is a political scientist, specialising in Iran. He works with the Iranian Democratic Opposition (CNRI).