Iran security forces kill mother in front of her family
A mother was shot dead in front of her family by Iran’s security forces during protests on January 8 in the northeastern city of Gorgan, local sources told Iran International.
The sources said Atena Hosseinian, the mother of a 9-year-old child, was killed after security forces fired directly at her head while she was attending protests outside the governorate building.
According to the sources, violence escalated as security forces opened fire on protesters, and the Gorgan governorate building was seized for several hours before being set on fire.
Witnesses said security forces fired at demonstrators from inside the governorate building.
The acting head of Iran’s Interests Section in Washington told state news agency IRNA that the group will depart from Mesa Airport in Arizona, make a brief stop in Egypt and return to Iran via Kuwait.
Abolfazl Mehrabadi added the office coordinated with US immigration authorities to issue return travel documents for the detainees.
The flight is the third to repatriate Iranian asylum seekers and others whose immigration cases were halted and who were detained by US immigration authorities for various reasons.
The planned deportation has drawn criticism in the United States, with Democratic Representatives Yassamin Ansari and Dave Min, citing human rights concerns in Iran.
Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed on December 7 that 55 Iranian nationals had been detained to be deported from the United States amid President Donald Trump’s tightened immigration policies.
On September 29, a plane carrying 120 Iranians including three women landed in Iran, an Iranian expelled from the United States told Iran International, adding that detainees had faced mistreatment in US facilities and that force was used during their transfer.
