Dubai: An Iranian police officer was killed during the riots in the southwest of the country in the midst of an ongoing demonstration for water shortages, the government’s media reported Wednesday, raising deaths in riots against at least two people.
Gunfire killed officers in the city of Mahshar and the others suffered gunshot wounds on his legs, the IRNA news agency managed by the government reported.
The report blamed “rioters ” for the murder, without describing.
Protests have seen another man killed, according to Iranian media reports.
Iran in the past has blamed the demonstrators for the deaths in the midst of security forces The Iranian-rich Khuzestan Province, the house for Arabic ethnic groups complained of discrimination by the Iranian Shiite theocracy.
The worries of water in the past have sent demonstrators angry at the streets of Iran.
The country faces a rolling blackout for weeks now, part of the party The authorities described as severe droughts.
Rainfall fell by almost 50% last year, leaving a dam with reduced water supply.
“When nearly 5 million Iranians in Khuzestan lacked access to clean drinking water, Iran failed.
To respect, protect, and fulfill the right to water, which is closely related to the rights to the highest health standards, ” Human Rights Act of Group IVISS in Iran said.
Protests at Khuzestan came when Iran struggled through a wave of repetitive infections in the Coronavirus pandemic and as thousands of workers in the oil industry have launched a strike for wages and better conditions.
The Iranian economy has also struggled under US sanctions since then – Presidential Decree Donald Trump 2018 to unilaterally attract America from Tehran’s nuclear agreement with the world’s power, crashing into the value of the currency of the Islamic Republic, Rial.