The Tehran regime is putting pressure and threats on the teachers and classmates of Armita Geravand, the sixteen-year-old who has been in a coma at Fajr Hospital since Sunday because, according to NGOs, she sustained a head injury in an argument over the veil with police morale in a subway station. This was reported by the exile media IranWire. According to Iranian educators, the Education Ministry’s security director visited Armita’s school and warned against spreading messages or photos of the young girl on social media, “otherwise they will face heavy fines and immediate termination of their contracts.”
Armita in a coma in Iran, the regime fears the new Mahsa – Intubated, a head wound covered with a large band-aid, her eyes closed, the drop on her deserted left arm. It is the photo of 16-year-old Armita Geravand, who is in a coma after being beaten by moral police in the Tehran subway for not wearing an Islamic headscarf. The snapshot, taken in the intensive care unit of Fajr Hospital in the Iranian capital, was published by the Kurdish human rights group Hengaw Organization for Human Rights and circulated on websites and social networks at the speed of the Internet: a possible fuse for a new wave of protests like the one that who shocked Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, was arrested for not wearing the hijab according to the Ayatollahs’ standards and died “mysteriously” after three days in a coma.
It was the same association that denounced the “severe physical attack” that Armita suffered after a video was circulated on social media showing a girl being carried out of a carriage by some women in black chadors and lying motionless on the carriage floor was laid. Version denied, as in the case of Mahsa, at the official level. State media – which the NGO said released the edited footage – reported that the young woman instead fainted after her blood pressure dropped and she hit the wall of the train carriage.
Video Iran: 16-year-old beaten by moral police for not wearing a veil
And the official Fars news agency published an interview with the girl’s parents in which they say she was not attacked. “We checked all the videos and it showed us that it was an accident,” the father said. A technique tried by the guardians of Orthodoxy, but which in recent months has not prevented the spread of news or the revolts that have shaken the regime. To be even more convincing, this time security officers confiscated the mobile phones of the young woman’s relatives, Hengaw reports. Not only. Iranwire claims that journalist Samira Rahi shared a photo showing police forces deployed outside the hospital. “Two police cars are parked at the entrance to the emergency room of Fajr Hospital and the presence of plainclothes officers is obvious,” he wrote on X, citing an informed source. The journalist also reported that “security forces checked vehicles passing through the area and in some cases carefully examined the contents of passengers’ cell phones.” Plainclothes officers were also present in the intensive care unit, where Armita has been hospitalized since Sunday evening. Another journalist, Maryam Lotfi, who works for Shargh newspaper, was arrested after she managed to enter the hospital where Armita is being held. In the demonstrations sparked by Mahsa’s death, over 90 journalists were targeted by the Iranian authorities. The most prominent, Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who prosecuted Mahsa’s case, are still in prison on charges of conspiring against national security. But in heavily armored Iran, the news still circulates. And the fuse of revolt has already been lit.
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