Clashes between security forces and rural residents in Khuzestan leave several injured

A human rights activist group published videos on social media accusing Iranian security forces of shooting residents of a deprived village in Khuzestan province with shotgun pellets.

This video, released by the Ahvaz Human Rights Organization on Wednesday, shows some residents of Abolfazl village in Ahvaz province with bullet marks on their bodies.

The Ahvaz Human Rights Organization says that these people resisted and protested against the Mostazafan Foundation, which claimed ownership of their land, and security forces injured and arrested them.

The Mostazafan Foundation's efforts to evacuate the land of this village were also reflected in the Wednesday, September 25, edition of the Tehran-based Sharq newspaper.

According to the newspaper, the residents of Abolfazl village, which has 300 households, have documents showing that they have been living in this area for nearly 40 years, "but the Foundation for the Oppressed has introduced itself as the owner of their land and is preventing them from providing services and village codes to their place of residence."

The reporter for Sharq newspaper then wrote that the most important question these days for the people of Abolfazl village is: if the Mostazafan Foundation's duty is to take care of the disadvantaged, who is more disadvantaged than them?

The Mostazafan Foundation is one of the largest economic institutions in Iran, and its president is chosen by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic. In recent weeks, a television interview by Parviz Fattah, the president of the Mostazafan Foundation, made headlines and attracted a lot of attention.

In the interview, he said that some senior political and executive figures in the Islamic Republic are not returning the properties of the Mostazafan Foundation. He mentioned, among others, Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, a senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Republic, who owns a school worth 200 billion tomans and must return it.

However, Mr. Fattah apologized a few days after the interview, saying that his words were "wrong" and "incomplete, inaccurate, and unfair."

Source: Radio Farda