IranNCRI's Statements’s suicide catastrophe of the youth is the outcome of the oppressive and plundering regime of the Velayat-e faqih

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IranNCRI's Statements’s suicide catastrophe of the youth is the outcome of the oppressive and plundering regime of the Velayat-e faqih

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Suicide age has decreased to 12 years and the highest rate of self-immolation of Iranian women in the Middle East

The increasing trend of suicide among different classes in cities throughout the country and in all age groups, especially among the younger generation, has become a humanitarian catastrophe in Iran.
On September 14, Asra Reza'i, a teenage Kurdish girl (16 years old) hanged herself in Saqez (in Iranian Kurdistan). According to government news agencies on September 13, in one single day, seven girls and boys in Tehran, Masal, Saqez and Nahavand committed suicide. On September, 11, Abdolsalam Khoshaman, a 28-year-old Kurdish student who was expelled from the university after after five years of study at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and deprived from pursuing his studies due to political tendencies, hanged himself in protest against the mullahs’ oppressive regime. On September 9, a Kurdish soldier joined the caravan of suicide victims in protest to the 'excessive punishment by the commander of the Saqez garrison'
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The shocking examples echoes one corner of this catastrophic disaster everyday:
Self-immolation of two brothers from Yarasan followers in protest to summoning, interrogating and continuously threatening death by regime intelligence agents (Kermanshah, April 13); suicide of a 13-year-old boy who threw himself off the ice rink bridge of Rasht (April 23, 2017) and suicide of a 12 years old boy who hanged himself in Gonabad two months earlier; suicide of at least four people in one day, including a 19-year-old girl in Mahabad, a 25-year-old woman in Saqez, a 19-year-old unemployed person in Takab and a 44-year-old man in Nizam Abad, Tehran (May 22), self-immolation of a 17-year-old student girl from Marivan (May 27); suicide of a father of a family who was incapable of providing a living for his family, after giving rice pills to his two-year-old son and his six-year-old daughter (Tehran, July 21); suicide of a construction worker who protested against the inadequate payment of his wages by a plundering organ called the Azad University in Karaj by throwing himself down from the top of the crane (July 22); suicide of a girl and a young man in less than two hours by throwing themselves from the Resalat bridge (Tehran-August 7); self-immolation of street vendors whose tiny capital is stolen by the tyrants and repressive agents of the regime; suicide of Seifollah Bidari, the noble teacher from Behbahan who ended his life in protest to poverty; suicide of Younes Afshari, a 26-year-old from Urumiyeh, who was unemployed despite university studies, and the death of Alireza Yavari, a 38-year-old baker of Golpayegan, who self-immolated due to rising prices of flour, high living expenses and bankruptcy, are some of the burning hell imposed on the oppressed masses, especially in deprived areas, that are taking a toll among them every day.
According to government reports in 2013, out of every 100,000 people, six people die by suicide every year in the country (Ilna state-run news agency – April 26, 2015), which represents 5100 suicides in 2013. Most of these suicides are in the deprived areas of the west and south of the country such as Ilam, Kermanshah, Lorestan, Kurdistan, Hamedan and Khuzestan, and among women and youths, even children of 12-13 years old.
According to the government's media reports, suicide rates among women are twice as high as men due to the regime's widespread misogynist policies and laws, and the added oppression and repression imposed on them. Meanwhile, many of them choose the worst and most objectionable method of suicide, namely self-immolation such that 40% of suicides are self-immolation. Right now, Iran under the rule of the clerics has ranked first in the Middle East's self-immolation of women (Jahan-e Sanat magazine - June 4, 2015).
Considering that, on the one hand, the clerical regime strongly prohibits the release of actual suicide figures in the country, and on the other hand, this social catastrophe has risen over the past four years, and given the acknowledgment by the regime's agents that 'for every successful suicide, 60 unsuccessful suicides are taking place (State run Young Reporters' Club, January 17, 2016), the disastrous dimensions of this social harm can be realized.
The worrying rise in suicide among young people is the outcome of 38-year-old despotic rule of the Velayat-e faqih, which has no achievement for the Iranian people except poverty and corruption, unemployment, prostitution, addiction, divorce and disenfranchised society.
The only way out of this cycle of crisis and social malformations is the unity and solidarity of all strata, especially young women and free women from all backgrounds and classes, to overthrow the oppressive and plundering regime of Velayat-e faqih, and to realize a democratic and free society, enjoying prosperity and social freedoms.


Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 18, 2017

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