AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): A member of Iran’s law enforcement has been killed and another injured in a car-ramming attack in the southwestern city of Izeh, Khuzestan province.
The officer, identified as Mohammad Qanbari, had been on guard at an entrance into the city in the wake of foreign-backed calls for protests in Izeh on the tenth birthday anniversary of Kian Pirfalak, one of the people killed by armed terrorists during the riots of 2022.
“This evening, a car with a specific identity at one of the entry points of the city deliberately and speedily hit the officers stationed at the checkpoint, and one of the officers was martyred at the scene,” said Mizan news agency, affiliated with the Iranian Judiciary.
“Then, he turned his car around and ran down one of the conscripts, causing physical injuries to the soldier, and he himself was shot by the officers. He died after being sent to the hospital,” the news agency reported.
State media reports revealed the identity of the attacker as Pouya Molaei Rad, the cousin of Kian Pirfalak’s mother, who was at a cemetery in which the nine-year-old had been laid to rest to celebrate his birthday anniversary.
Kian was one of the seven victims of indiscriminate shootings at people and security forces by heavily-armed foreign-backed terrorists at a major crossroads in Izeh on November 16, 2022.
The deadly shooting was carried out amid foreign-backed riots that broke out following the death in police custody of a young Iranian woman in the Iranian capital of Tehran.
Mahsa Amini, 22, died at the hospital three days after she collapsed at a police station. An investigation attributed her death to a medical condition, dismissing allegations that she had been beaten by police forces.
In October 2022, Iran's Interior Ministry released an assessment, saying separatist and terrorist groups were behind the riots as part of a hybrid war launched by the Islamic Republic's enemies to weaken the country's national solidarity and hinder its progress.
According to the assessment, some 200 people lost their lives in the riots, which also inflicted trillions of rials in damage to state, public, and private property.
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