In the aftermath of a day of street fighting in Tehran and other Iranian cities, police deny shooting at protesters during protests over the shooting down of the Ukrainian Boeing. This was stated by his manager in the Tehran capital, Hossein Rahimi, claiming that the agents "were instead ordered to moderate". Fars reports it.
Several videos circulated in the past few hours on social media had shown the repression of the security forces and at least one woman hit in the leg by a bullet and rescued by other protesters. Some agents allegedly chased armed groups of demonstrators, while witnesses from the marches denounced the presence of blood on the asphalt.
The discontent of the Iranians against the Khamenei regime is due to the lies that would have been told by the government for three days about the shooting down of the Ukrainian Boeing by an Iranian missile that would have exchanged the plane for an American patriot. This morning the government, through its spokesman Ali Rabiei in a message on state TV denied that he wanted to cover up the matter.
"In these painful days, many criticisms have been addressed to the authorities. Some perpetrators have also been accused of lies and attempts to cover up the story" of the shooting down of the Ukrainian plane, "but in all honesty it was not so". Ali Rabiei has promised that the case will be dealt with "full transparency".
