Using guns, tasers or machetes, carjackers in Iran are using more and more brazen strategies to threaten drivers and steal their vehicles or valuables. With poverty and unemployment on the rise, the crime is fueled by desperation, as shown in the shocking videos taken on highways and streets around Iran.
“Keft giri” is the Persian word that Iranians use for aggravated robberies, such as mugging. But now, they also use it to describe this worrying new phenomenon which has spread across the country in the past few years. Searching the term on Iranian social media channels brings up hundreds of videos of carjackings.
