Iranian forces massacred protesters fleeing burning market, witnesses say
Source: Washington Post
Iranian security forces gunned down dozens of protesters trying to escape a devastating blaze in the Caspian Sea city of Rasht during a nationwide uprising earlier this month, according to four witness accounts provided to The Washington Post.
The bloodshed came after days of mounting public protest in the city against the Iranian government, including the mass closure of shops by merchants in Rasht’s historic bazaar.
After the open-air market caught fire, protesters who had sought refuge from security forces within its labyrinthine alleys began to flee and were confronted by uniformed riot police and plainclothes officers, on motorcycles and on foot, armed with shotguns and assault rifles, according to one protester’s account. Security forces were firing directly at the people, another Rasht resident said.
“Security forces were shooting with Kalashnikovs into the bazaar,” Saman, a witness who participated in the protests, said in an interview. “It was terrifying. They killed so many people, even people escaping.”
The forces also blocked fire trucks from immediately responding to the fire, two witnesses said. More than 30 businesses ultimately burned inside the bazaar, which was reduced to a gray husk, or along Shariati Street just outside, a Post review of available visual imagery found.
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Freepers are actively cheering on the ICE murders and want more of it. It's sick 
When a regime is doing what Iran is doing, their end is near.