Family in Fooladshahr forced to hide child’s body, eyewitnesses say
A message from eyewitnesses in the industrial town of Fooladshahr, near Isfahan, sent to Iran International describes what locals say is a “massacre” of protesters and intense pressure on grieving families, including a case in which relatives kept a child’s body at home overnight using ice from neighbors because they could not bury him.
According to residents, families have been forced into long lines to wash the bodies of their loved ones, while security forces allegedly pressure them to register the dead as members of the Basij militia, a paramilitary force under the Revolutionary Guards.
In one reported case, the victim was a 16-year-old boy killed by shotgun pellets, and his mother at Bagh-e Rezvan cemetery had to wash corpses one by one just to find her son’s body among them, a scene that those present say reveals the scale and unprecedented nature of the killings.









