Parliament Commission Member Claims: Mahsa Amini Had Underlying Illness and Brain Surgery

Despite Mahsa Amini’s father’s insistence that his daughter did not suffer from any “underlying illness,” a member of the parliament’s Health and Medical Commission claimed she had a hormonal disorder called “diabetes insipidus” and underwent brain surgery in childhood.

Fatemeh Mohammadbaigi, on Wednesday, September 21, brought up this issue in a conversation with ISNA news agency after a session of the Internal Affairs Commission attended by several representatives, officials from the Forensic Medicine Organization, Emergency Services, and doctors to examine the case of this young woman.

As this parliament member recounted, in this “three-hour session, all medical records of Mahsa Amini’s case were presented by the Emergency Services team, Forensic Medicine officials, and specialist physicians.”

Ms. Mohammadbaigi denied any physical assault on Mahsa Amini and added: “According to the CT scan presented, there is no skull fracture or internal bleeding in the brain. Therefore, the conclusion of yesterday’s session, based on the documents presented, was that no physical assault took place and her death was caused by other factors.”

This member of the Health and Medical Commission further stated that “according to documents” presented yesterday by forensic medicine experts and other officials, Mahsa Amini had a history of “brain surgery, and the gap in her brain was due to surgery in childhood.”

She added that “the medical records and surgical files were extracted from the archives of the hospital where the previous surgery was performed” and she took medication due to “pituitary surgery” in childhood and “apparently visited a neurologist (brain and nerve specialist) several times in recent years.”

Mohammadbaigi also added that it is possible that Mahsa Amini suffered from post-operative complications such as diabetes insipidus (a type of hormonal disorder) due to “pituitary surgery” and the use of certain medications.

She stated, however, that the precise results of her tests would be determined in the coming days.

This representative also claimed, citing two women who were detained with Mahsa, that Mahsa Amini “joked with other girls in the police vehicle and said she was from the countryside and not from Tehran. Later she was calm in the training class and there was no bad behavior, fighting, or argument in the class.”

Raising the issue of Mahsa Amini’s underlying illness began from the first hours the news of her brain death leaked to the media, initially by news agencies close to the government and then by official officials such as the Interior Minister, and continued.

This is while Amjad Amini, Mahsa Amini’s father, said about it: “She did not have epilepsy, nor heart disease. The most she had was a cold. They have all made these up themselves.”

He had emphasized that “psychologically they put stress on her and caused this tragedy.”

The Islamic Republic has constantly spoken in recent days about the existence of “documents” based on “underlying illness” of Mahsa Amini, but these documents have not yet been made available to the media.

Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old girl from Saqqez who traveled to Tehran with her family to visit relatives, suffered brain death after being arrested by officers of the Morality Police and transferred to the security police detention center on Vezara Street.

Eye witnesses and a number of independent doctors who have seen her brain CT scan report physical assault and the presence of blood in the lungs resulting from a severe blow to the head.

Following Mahsa’s death as a result of physical assault by Morality Police officers, widespread protests erupted in various cities in Iran, which have left at least six dead and dozens injured.

Ali Khamenei, in his speech today, made no reference to these events and, ignoring Mahsa’s death, proceeded to make statements about the war between Iran and Iraq.

Source: Radio Farda