The Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have arrested a number of individuals who voluntarily involved in providing relief to the flood survivors in Ahvaz, southwest Iran.
MOIS agents on Saturday and Sunday arrested a t least 25 individuals taking part in recent protests seen in the past few days, along with numerous relief workers voluntarily providing independent support to the flood-hit areas, all out of their own pockets.
A number of these individuals arrested were involved in erecting flood barriers and providing support for those in flooded areas.
The regime’s oppressive forces in the town of Malashiyeh, Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, raided the area where a group of independent volunteer relief workers were stationed, arresting and transferring them to an unknown location.
Some 22 volunteer relief workers who were arrested on Sunday are identified as:
1. Rasoul Fartousi
2. Ebrahim Badavi
3. Amin Seilavi
4. Ali Mousavi
5. Hassan Beit Eshagh
6. Emad Heidari
7. Ali Naseri
8. Hatam Dahimi
9. Ahmad Badavi
10. Hossein Hamoudi
11. Mehdi Sharifi
12. Ghasem Tamimi
13. Aref Sarkhi
14. Foad Badavi
15. Kazem Marvani
16. Mohsen Zavidat
17. Habib Koroushat
18. Masoud Harizavi
19. Naji Alsavari
20. Heidar Seilavi
21. Reza Hezbavi
22. Sajad Deilami
Some five detainees arrested on Saturday, who had taken part in recent protests are:
1. Ali Kazem
2. Mehdi Farhan
3. Adnan Karim
4. Hamzeh Sahi
5. Mehdi Savari
According to human rights groups, 11 relief workers were also arrested in Khuzestan in the past few days by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
This comes after floods ravaged the north, south and west of Iran with angry Iranians complaining of no state aid.
People affected by the county’s worst floods in a decade have been staging angry demonstrations against inadequate relief response by the government while state TV claims help is being provided to the survivors.
In a recent case, residents of Selang Abad and Eyn-e Do districts in Ahvaz, capital of Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, took to the streets protesting the authorities’ inaction and refusal to provide any relief to the needy people in flood-hit areas.
While the devastating floods affect 1,900 cities and villages across Iran with more cities put on flood alert, the authorities have resorted to dispatched IRGC, Basij and state police units to the streets of various cities in Khuzestan to enforce a climate of fear and quell any possible protest.
Local reports indicate the authorities have even ordered their proxies in Iraq to send units into Iranian soil.
Videos on social media showed even troops from Iraq’s IRGC backed Popular Mobilization Forces in Khuzestan while the Fatemiyoun Division, made up of Afghan nationals, were sent to Poldokhtar in western Iran.
Source » iran-hrm