Wife of one of the victims of the downed Ukrainian plane: I was summoned and threatened by Zanjan intelligence
The wife of one of the victims of the plane shot down by the IRGC reported being summoned and threatened by the Zanjan Intelligence Department on charges of "insulting Khamenei's representatives," and said she was forced to leave Iran.
Javad Soleimani, the husband of Elnaz Nabi, one of the victims of the Ukrainian plane that was shot down by a missile fired by the IRGC, posted on his Instagram page that he had been summoned by the Zanjan Intelligence Department "the morning after the funeral ceremony" for "insulting Khamenei's representatives and Instagram posts."
Elnaz Nabi's husband wrote that he had previously criticized "the manner in which the imposed ceremony was carried out by the Martyr Foundation, the IRGC, and government institutions," adding: "Unfortunately, at the funeral ceremony, I saw that the commander of the IRGC and Khamenei's representative in the IRGC stood next to us as mourners, and I told them that I was not so unscrupulous as to make you stand as mourners."
Mr. Soleimani wrote that on the day of the funeral, he received a message with the following content: "Shut your mouth, this is the first and last warning."
He continued this post, noting that he went to Tehran after being summoned to the Zanjan Intelligence Department, and wrote that his father's house had also been contacted in Tehran. In Tehran, I had gone to a place other than the home of my acquaintances, and since I was not and am not a person of silence, I had to leave the country immediately to convey the voice of the victims of this tragedy to others.
On the morning of Wednesday, January 8, a Ukrainian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane with 176 people on board was shot down by the air defenses of the Revolutionary Guard Corps after taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport on the outskirts of Tehran. After days of insistence by Iranian officials that the plane had crashed due to a technical malfunction, the IRGC finally announced that it had mistakenly targeted the plane.
However, published images of the funeral ceremony of the victims show that the authorities, by erecting scaffolding, barely allowed families to approach the burial site of their loved ones, turning the ceremony into a state funeral.
One of the fathers of those killed in the Ukrainian plane also criticized the mosque for not bringing the perpetrators of the shooting down of the passenger plane to justice.
The Islamic Republic government has also had security clashes with protesters protesting the IRGC's shooting down of a passenger plane.
A judicial official in the Islamic Republic confirmed the arrests of people in recent days of protests against the downing of a Ukrainian plane by the Revolutionary Guard Corps, which killed 176 people, and announced the number of people arrested as "about 30."
Source: Voice of America
