Sun 24 November 2019:
Iranian officials have been accused of stealing bodies from morgues and spiriting away injured patients from hospitals to disguise the true scale of their crackdown on recent protests.
A UN office said it feared the unrest may have killed “a significant number of people.” It comes amid reports that the government is secretly disposing of bodies from morgues, according to exiled opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK).
His family believe that Mehdi is not being treated in hospital but has instead been taken away by the intelligence services.
“He was critical but alive when he arrived at hospital… we have heard nothing since,” his uncle Ahmed spoke out about his nephew.
Ahmed tried to phone his nephew but was unable to reach him due to the government shutting down the internet across the country, also limiting communications with the outside world.
Khamenei backed the government’s decision to raise petrol prices, saying the activists had been “pushed into violence by counterrevolutionaries and foreign enemies of Iran.”
Iran’s first Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri also issued a warning to regional countries over the unrest. “If a clue is found that they have meddled in Iran’s domestic affairs to create unrest, they will not see another day without trouble in this region,” he warned. “Iran is not a country you can play such games with.”
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