An ophthalmologist in Tehran has recorded more than 400 eye injuries from gunshot in the major hospital of the city. According to the media reports, dealing with eye injury cases has become a challenge for the medical staff in the hospital. At the same time, several doctors in Iran and particularly in Tehran, confirm that the Iranian authorities are doing a brutal crackdown on anti-government protestors.
In a separate incident, three doctors from Tehran told the international media outlet that the hospitals in Tehran are currently overburdened, and emergency wards are filled with injured protestors. The doctors also confirmed that they have seen several protestors with head injuries as well. The authorities are using tactics that have been used against women protestors in 2022 in Iran. It is necessary to mention that women were protesting with the slogan “Woman, Life, and Freedom” for their rights in 2022.
“[Security forces] are deliberately shooting at the head and the eyes. They want to damage the head and the eyes so they can no longer see, the same thing they did in [2022],” said a doctor in Tehran.
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US President Donald Trump has urged anti-government Iranian protestors to keep protesting. Trump further said that “Help is on the way.”
The US president wrote on Truth Social, “ Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.”
Earlier, Donald Trump threatened military action if Iran government will not stop killing protesters in the country. He recently said that US will impose 25% tarrif to the countries doing business with Iran.
Earlier on December 28, shopkeepers poured into the streets of Tehran to voiced their anger at a steep decline in the value of Iranian currency, the rial, against the US dollar on the open exchange market.
