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"Iran Shot My Son Dead in His Hospital Bed"
(Sunday Times-UK) Christina Lamb - Parvis Afshari shows me photographs of a beaming teenage boy with medals - a champion swimmer. "That's my son Sam," he says proudly. "He was the national champion." On Jan. 8, two weeks after his 17th birthday, Sam went out into the streets of their home city of Karaj, west of Tehran, with friends to protest against the Islamic regime, like millions of people in towns across Iran. Like tens of thousands of others, he never came home. Security forces came out on pick-up trucks mounted with Russian machineguns and began firing on protesters. "Sam was shot in the side" and was among many injured taken to Madani hospital. While waiting for surgery, security forces entered the hospital and, according to Afshari, "finished him off. They shot him in the back of the head....A nurse who witnessed it told me. She said she saw multiple people killed inside the hospital." His two friends Nima and Rohan, with whom he had gone to protest, were also killed. Afshari supports the U.S. attack on Iran, rejoicing in the killing of Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, on the first day. He rejects arguments that it has been a failure. His fear is that the U.S. will end the war. "Trump must not make peace," he said. "Look at what kind of people these are. If they killed 50,000 of their own people in two nights, they won't have mercy on anyone." He points out that the regime is carrying out near-daily executions of those arrested in the protests.