NCRI - On Sunday, Special Units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attacked a peaceful gathering in Rabat Township in the suburb of the northwestern city of Sardasht, killing one and wounding five others.

Upon the arrival of IRGC agents on the scene of the gathering, they opened fire on defenseless people killing a 21-year-old man identified as Hossein Poyaii-Far.

The gathering was in protest against arbitrary stopping of a pickup van carrying goods for local residents by the State Security Forces. Enraged people first gathered outside the Rabat Police Station but it soon spread to other parts to the entry of the town.

The victim’s body was secretly buried by local agents of the regime in the town’s cemetery.

The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations to condemn the mullahs’ regime suppressive measures against Iranian people. 

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 23, 2008