QATAR Iran, at least 10 dead in a double attack. Doubts about the matrix

Among the victims are a woman, two children and a policeman. “Armed terrorists” attacked in Khuzestan and Isfahan. On the eve of the World Cup, the coach of the Iranian team recognizes “freedom of protest”. Despite government pressure, he has also summoned a player who expressed his support for the protesters.

Tehran () – More blood spilled in Iran, where street protests have already entered the third month over the death in mid-September of the 22-year-old Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini at the hands of the moral police. At least 10 people, including a woman, two children and a policeman, died yesterday in two separate attacks carried out by unknown persons in Khuzestan and Isfahan, according to hospital sources reproduced by the press.

In Izeh, in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, “armed terrorists” aboard two motorcycles opened fire at a market where protesters and law enforcement had gathered, killing five and injuring 10. Sources from the Jondi-Chapour hospital in Ahvaz add that “two more wounded died this morning at dawn, bringing the total toll to seven dead and eight wounded.”

Among the dead are a 45-year-old woman and two minors, ages 9 and 13.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi ordered the authorities to “act promptly to identify the perpetrators of the attack and bring them to justice so that they are punished.” However, four hours later in Isfahan, in central Iran, two other attackers also riding a motorbike opened fire with automatic weapons at security officers, killing a policeman and two paramilitaries (Basji); seven other officers were injured.

On October 26, 13 people died in Shiraz in an attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS, formerly Isis) in the main Shiite sanctuary in the south of the country.

Meanwhile, ahead of the World Cup in Qatar that begins on November 20, the coach of the national team -about whose participation doubts had arisen in recent weeks, with rumors of exclusion due to the violent government repression against protests by Amini- granted “freedom to protest.” In the press conference that took place yesterday in Doha, the technical director Carlos Queiroz affirmed that “everyone has the right to express themselves” giving as an example the fact that “some players kneel before a game and others don’t”. and in the Islamic Republic “it is exactly the same.”

This “freedom of conscience” would seem to be reflected in the team, because Bayer Leverkusen striker Sardar Azmoun, 27, who has repeatedly spoken out in favor of the protest, praising the “value of Iranian women”. According to some press sources, the Portuguese coach received pressure from the Iranian Ministry of Sport so that he would not call up the player for the World Cup in Qatar.