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Iran has carried out hundreds of death sentences against its opponents in recent years, leading to the spread of a dangerous social phenomenon, which is suicide by hanging, which is the most common form of suicide in Iran, and activists Human rights officials believe that children learned this from the regime’s public executions.
In an interview with the “Faraz” website, Mustafa Ighleema, director of the Iranian Scientific Society for Social Work, said that publicly witnessing the executions carried out by the Iranian regime has contributed to the effect of ending their lives, according to the Iran Human Rights Observatory.
Ighlima emphasized that the reason behind the increase in the number of teenage suicides by hanging in the country is that “society is almost exploding under pressure.”
He said suicides can only be prevented after removing the underlying causes, including poverty, unemployment and high prices.
The man expressed his amazement at the indifference of the Iranian regime to the phenomenon and said: “If these child suicides had occurred in another country, the governor or president of that city would have resigned, because they are the ones behind the unemployment, the poverty and social disasters “.
The Iranian media regularly document suicides among youth and adolescents due to social pressures, in light of deteriorating economic conditions and diminishing opportunities for a decent life in the country.
Another girl committed suicide in Iran last Tuesday due to poverty and not having a smartphone to participate in online lessons, according to the observatory.
According to the same source, the 13-year-old girl, Parastu Jalili Azar, committed suicide because she did not have a phone that would allow her to follow lessons online, while schools were closed due to the new Corona epidemic.
His poor family could not afford to buy him a smartphone, according to the observatory, which revealed in context that Azar is not the first victim of poverty.
Last month, another 11-year-old boy, Mohamed Massawi Zadeh, committed suicide.
Muhammad hanged himself in the southwestern city of Bushehr on October 10 because he did not have a smartphone that would allow him to participate in online lessons.
His mother said at the time that her son’s school did not give Muhammad a smartphone despite his promises.
The accident sparked national anger, while the mother later withdrew and changed her statements, due to pressure from the regime, according to the same source, saying that the school supported and helped Muhammad.
The government news agency “Rukna” quoted Muhammad’s mother as saying, “We had a problem for two or three months, my son did not have a suitable phone” and that his cell phone was faulty.
“We did not have a good life, we lived in a rented house with a sick husband,” she added.
She confirmed that her son needed a mobile phone, because the phone he had was not working properly and therefore he could not send audio clips as requested by his teacher.
According to her account, her teacher told her, “Go to your father and complain to him.”
There are many examples of children committing suicide in Iran due to extreme poverty, such as Rojan (14) and Sanandaj, who committed suicide at age 17 in Abadan in September 2020.
Also in October, Asal (16 years old) committed suicide in Ribat Karim, as well as Zahra (16 years old) in Ganjan Bushehr, as well as Mortada, who was 10 years old, in Ilam, in addition to Mobina (11 years old) in Tehran.
The Iranian Human Rights Monitor said these are just a few examples of the depth of the humanitarian catastrophe that emerged under the rule of the mullahs in Iran.
In addition, the Observatory noted that the system promised that it would meet online education requirements for free, including providing free smartphones and internet for students, but government officials expect 36 percent of children to be able to dropping out of school due to poverty and inability to provide cell phones or tablets, especially in rural areas.
On September 1, 2020, the Javanese state newspaper quoted the Director General of Education of the Kerman Governorate as saying that “more than 240,000 students in the Kerman Governorate do not have smartphones.”
The Hamdali newspaper, for its part, wrote on October 13: “This is not the first time that poverty has driven children from a rich country like Iran to suicide.”
He reminded his readers of Zainab, who hanged herself in Ilam last March because she was not wearing new clothes for the New Year.
She said her last wish was to buy new clothes for Nowruz.
And Armen (11 years old), who lived in the Jafarabad district of Kermanshah, committed suicide by taking birth control pills “because of hunger and poverty”.
And despite cases of child suicide by hanging, which appears to be on the rise in recent years, public executions are still on display in Iran and it’s 2020, according to Eglimah.
Given the country’s record depreciation and economic troubles in Iran, the poverty line for a family of four has risen to 10 million tomans (about $ 314).
This has left more than 60 million Iranians in poverty while 50 percent of the population lives in extreme poverty.
With the sharp rise in prices of electronic products, only a limited number of students can buy smartphones or tablets for online lessons.
