HARROWING images of homeless people forced to sleep inempty graves at a cemetery have provoked international outcry.
By Harriet Sinclair December 30,2016
At least 50 homeless people were
reportedly forced out of a cemetery in Shahriar, Iran, after it emerged they
had been sleeping in empty graves.
The people sleeping in the cemetery were allegedly beaten
and thrown out of the graveyard in Nasirabad, Shahriar Province after Shahrvand
newspaper covered the story, the National
Council of Resistance of Iran reported.
However, when charities and other press went to the
graveyard after it was reported there were people sleeping there, they found it
empty, with one homeless man reporting the group had been forced from the area.
The governor of Sharyar, Saeid Naji, had reportedly told the
state-sanctioned Islamic Republic News Agency the problem of homeless people
sleeping in the cemetery would be specially dealt with, although there were no
specific details of what this entailed.
Shahin Gobadi, from the Foreign Affairs Committee of theNational Council of Resistance of Iran, (NCRI) said: "The phenomenon of
grave-sleepers is another result of the devastating rule of the clerical regime
in Iran, a country that sits on an ocean of oil.
"It is now abundantly clear that contrary to all of
Rouhani's claims of 'moderation' and improving public welfare, during his tenure
official embezzlement and corruption has only intensified and the regime has
devoted all its available resources to repression at home, massacring theSyrian people and sponsoring terror.
"That is also true regarding all the assets that were
unfrozen as a result of the nuclear deal. In the face of these horrifying
images, the regime's officials including Rouhani have desperately resorted to
sheer demagogy to fend off the public outcry and outrage."
The Iranian Embassy did not immediately respond to a request
for comment.
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