School Principal Commits Self-Immolation in Isfahan
The ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday about the self-immolation of the principal of one of Isfahan’s high schools in front of the city’s courthouse building.
Amin Kianpour, a mathematics teacher and principal of Najafi One High School in District Five of Isfahan’s Education Department, set himself on fire with gasoline on Sunday, the sixth of Tirmah, in front of the General Courthouse building of Isfahan Province on Nikbakht Street in the city.
According to ISNA, citing one of Kianpour’s colleagues, this teacher and school principal was 43 years old, had no history of nervous behavior or unusual and unpredictable conduct, was very calm and understanding, and was such an accomplished mathematics teacher that all schools had requested to collaborate with him.
Based on the news agency’s report, Amin Kianpour had been involved for a long time in a complaint case regarding the recovery of an apartment that the owner had sold to two people, including Kianpour.
After going back and forth to court for an extended period, he announced that if his rights were not returned to him, he would set himself on fire in front of the courthouse building. When the court ruled in favor of the first buyer, he carried out his threat.
Kianpour’s colleague told ISNA that everyone is in shock and disbelief, and in this economic situation, educators are facing very difficult conditions.
He said: “The educational vice-principal of our school, with 26 years of teaching experience, is still a renter, and the landlord has demanded 300 million tomans from him as a mortgage. How much is a teacher’s income? When under these conditions, someone finally becomes a homeowner but is suddenly told the house belongs to someone else and you must vacate it, what state of mind does that leave them in?”
Since 1399, several reports of self-immolation and suicide by workers and other social classes in Iran have been published due to increased poverty and economic pressures.
Source: Radio Farda
