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Twenty Dead as Shots Fired From Friday Imam’s Helicopter
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
OstanWire

Twenty people were reported to have been killed and several injured when shots were fired from a helicopter outside a Friday imam’s residence in Sadra City, Shiraz province

Unconfirmed local reports say on the evening of Sunday, November 17, shots were fired at protesters from a helicopter that had landed at the residence of Sadra City’s leader of Friday prayers to pick him up. Protesters had gathered outside the cleric’s residence and had been chanting slogans.

Two brothers, Abdollah and Rasul Qavimi, from the village of Qalat near Shiraz, are believed to be among the dead. The brothers’ family had managed recover their bodies and had taken them to Qalat for burial.

Read more at: https://iranwire.com/en/features/6463

This story was highlighted, extremely bad.

We said Saddam committed atrocities, surely worse than this but this is an atrocity still;  the shooting of many protesters. Our troops are over there but we are just observers right now.