Crackdown in Kurdish region of Iran hits home for Port Moody, B.C. woman
Global News
Video has begun to emerge showing the Iranian government has brought in tanks to crush protests in the Kurdish town of Sanandaj in the country's west.
A Port Moody, B.C., woman is living a nightmare as she watches a government crackdown in her former hometown in Iran.
Video has begun to emerge showing the Iranian government has brought in tanks to crush protests in the Kurdish town of Sanandaj in the country’s west.
Mehran, who Global News has agreed not to identify out of concern for her family’s safety, gets up every morning and anxiously watches the latest videos from home on social media.
“Honestly every single day I wake up and I say, ‘I hope I don’t hear any bad news,'” she said.
“Yes I am scared, every single day I wake up, I say, oh my God, I hope we get through it without hearing any bad news.”
Mehran’s home province of Kurdistan has been faced some of the harshest crackdowns by the regime. Amnesty Internatonal reports that Iranian security forces in the region are using firearms indiscriminately.
Videos are also emerging of Tehran sending heavy-armoured weapons to the city, which is largely populated by the same ethnic minority as Mahsa Amini, the young woman whose death in police custody was a catalyst for weeks of anti-regime protests.
Mehran recounted a recent video call with her niece in Kurdistan, in which she saw some of the violence taking place in real time.
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