TEHRAN —
Mourners gathered Saturday in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz to bury the
victims of a deadly assault on a shrine, while chanting slogans against
nationwide riots over
Mahsa Amini’s death.
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At least 15
people were killed Wednesday in a key Shiite Muslim shrine in the city,
according to official media, in an attack claimed by Daesh.
The shooting at
the Shah Cheragh mausoleum came on the same day that thousands of people across
Iran paid tribute to Amini, 40 days after her death in police custody.
Amini, 22, died
on September 16, three days after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran
for allegedly breaching the country’s Islamic dress code for women.
The perpetrator
of the attack in Shiraz, identified by local media as Hamed Badakhshan, died of
wounds sustained while he was being arrested, a local official said Saturday.
“Despite all
efforts, the terrorist who attacked pilgrims at the holy shrine died,” said
deputy governor Esmail Mohebipour, quoted by the state news agency IRNA.
Brandishing
Shiite symbols, the crowd marched through central Shiraz following a vehicle
carrying the victims’ coffins which were draped in the Iranian flag.
The crowd can be
heard chanting “Death to America, to Israel, to England” and “The vigilant
revolutionary people hates the rioters.”
During the
ceremony, the head of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of Iran’s
military, urged “a limited number of youth deceived” by the Islamic republic’s
enemies to put an end to the “riots”.
“Today is when
the riots end,” warned Major General Hossein Salami, calling on students “not
to become chess pieces for the enemy”.
Students in
several universities in Tehran and other Iranian cities have been protesting in
the weeks since Amini’s death, with some chanting anti-regime slogans.
“Stop going out
to the streets,” the Revolutionary Guards chief said.
Salami meanwhile
accused Saudi leaders of fuelling the unrest, and warned its royal family “and
the media under their control to be careful”.
“You, who
provoke people and sow the seeds of sedition by showing images (from Iran),
think a little about what could happen to you,” Salami added.
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