In Iran, protestors and especially militants are being subjected to an extremely violent crackdown with shooting aimed at their eyes. Blinding the enemy who dares to dispute the powers that be, is the latest act of repression to go down in the country’s long history.
Over the course of the Iranian dissident action in recent years, and during the nationwide Women, Life, Freedom movement in 2022 the frequency of eye injuries inflicted upon protestors has come under public scrutiny. Women, young people and students, often passers-by even, have literally lost an eye, or their – eyesight – from buckshot or close-range projectiles. A tactic by security forces that we are now witnessing again: lawyer and 2003 Peace Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi estimated on 9 January that “at least 400 people have been admitted to hospital in Tehran with firearm-related eye injuries since protests kicked off at the start of the year.
