An Iranian man was killed by security forces after celebrating the defeat of the Iranian team against the United States at the World Cup, human rights defenders said on Wednesday.
The defeat of Iran on Tuesday evening in Doha against its sworn enemy and its elimination from the World Cup have aroused scenes of both joy and despair among Iranians, in a country divided in the face of the protest movement launched two years ago. month and a half.
Mehran Samak, 27, was shot and killed after honking his horn while driving his car in Bandar Anzali, a town on the Caspian Sea, northwest of Tehran, according to human rights groups.
The young man “was directly targeted and shot in the head by security forces… after the national team lost to America“, said the group Iran Human Rights (IHR), based in Oslo.
Another group, the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), also claimed the man was killed by security forces while attending the celebrations.
He posted a video of his funeral in Tehran during which the crowd could be heard shouting “Death to the Dictator“.
This slogan targeting the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is one of the main rallying cries of the protest movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who died on September 16 in Tehran after her arrest. by the morality police.
At least 448 people, including 60 children under the age of 18, have died in the crackdown on protests by security forces, according to a tally compiled by IHR.
On Monday, the Iranian authorities had for the first time reported the death of more than 300 people since the start of the unrest.
