Pakistani students who reached Pakistan from Iran on Thursday said they heard gunshots and witnessed reports of riots and violence. The students said that they were not allowed to leave campus as authorities barred them from leaving their hostel rooms.
The students confirmed that the protests in Iran first erupted over rising prices and later escalated into one of the biggest challenges faced by the current government in the country.
A fourth-year student, Shahanshah Abbas, at Isfahan University said, “During nighttime, we would sit inside, and we would hear gunshots.”
Abbas also said that the students in his university were not allowed to leave their hostel room after 4 pm.
“There was nothing happening on campus,” Abbas said, but in his interactions with Iranians, he heard stories of violence and chaos.
“The surrounding areas, like banks, mosques, they were damaged, set on fire … so things were really bad,” he added.
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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.
