Iran, Pegah Moshir Pour: “Terrible testimonies, Tehran smells of blood”

Brussels, 14 Jan. (LaPresse) – “The testimonies coming from Iran are terrible. We are on the sixth day of an Internet blackout and it is therefore increasingly difficult for people outside Iran to hear from their loved ones. Everyone is under pressure and psychologically very distressed because they are almost walking zombies, going to work, to university, but in reality their only thought is Iran. So there is this pain that we are feeling through the testimonies.” This was stated to LaPresse by human rights activist and writer Pegah Moshir Pour, born in Iran and raised in Italy. “Just yesterday,” she adds, “I received this testimony from a person who managed to connect with her family by phone, because the Internet continues to be shut down. The mother told her, ‘Tehran smells of blood.’ Every morning when she leaves the house she feels this smell of blood, so this is the dramatic nature not only in sight and hearing, but also in smell, which, if we think about it, is the first thing we develop as human beings. These are terrifying descriptions,” she stresses. “They say the figure of 12,000 dead is a lie: perhaps we are talking about more than 20,000 deaths, and in addition there is the difficulty of recovering the bodies of people who were killed by bullets, by war ammunition fired directly at the head,” she continues. “This is what they do and have always done in an even more violent way, from children of 10 or 11 years old to elderly people. They have no mercy for anyone. Since the number of civilian victims is unfortunately skyrocketing, they thus try to increase the number of dead among the security forces, bringing it closer to the number of civilians. This makes it even clearer how corrupt this regime is,” she concludes.