Ghoulish Iranian armed forces in plainclothes tried to stop doctors from treating wounded anti-government protesters during last month’s courageous uprising — as photos reveal the heartbreak the Islamic regime inflicted on its own people.
Multiple doctors recently told the Associated Press that the regime’s security agents ambushed hospitals across multiple cities over a few days last month in a bid to scare medical staff, haul away protesters and callously pack up the dead in body bags.
Some medical staff even turned to falsifying the medical records of injured protesters in hopes they wouldn’t be seized by the regime.
“The whole other thing that you had in the hospital was the extremely uneasy atmosphere,” one anonymous doctor told the AP.
“You had plainclothes agents bursting into the hospital, into the emergency ward with AK-47s on their shoulders, threatening staff and admitted patients.”
In one case, a doctor attempted to help a man in his 40s who was shot in the head, but security agents blocked him and other staff from helping in northern city of Rasht. The man died minutes later.
A video obtained by the news outlet shows the armed forces breaking the glass door of a hospital to get inside as people ran for cover.
Anti-regime protests roiled Iran last month, with demonstrators initially angered over unbearable economic conditions. But the outcry from civilians led to a swift crackdown from the Islamic Republic, which is accused of gunning down innocent protesters and leading to at least more than 7,000 deaths, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency.
The death toll is the highest since the current government took control in 1979.
Photos dating back to January show the intense grief that gripped the country during the unrest with Iranians sobbing over body bags containing their loved ones. One tragic image shows an inconsolable young man lying at the foot of a lifeless body.
A video from the AP shows dead victims messily arranged in bags strewn across the floor.
The injured and dead overwhelmed medical centers for days.
“The turnover was so incredibly insane that every 15 to 30 minutes the entire emergency ward would be emptied and then refilled with new patients,” the doctor said.
Protesters that survived their wounds were taken by armed forces after receiving treatment.
In a bid to keep survivors safe, medical staff would omit gunshot wounds from documentation.
An injury to the abdomen would be classified as a simple case of abdominal pain and a gunshot to the genitals was identified as a urology issue, according to the doctor.
“We knew that no matter what we did for the patients, they wouldn’t be safe once they stepped out of the hospital,” he said.
Health Ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour denied that treatment was prevented or protesters were yanked from hospitals, calling the accusations “untrue, but also fundamentally impossible.
He had said in state media that all injured protesters were treated “without any discrimination or interference over political opinions.”
Medical workers who helped battered protesters have also faced arrests in the aftermath of the anti-regime rallies.
With Post wires
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