How Come the Heart of the Assailants Does Not Stop?

Nobody should be polite over the murder of Haleh Sahabi and there should be no misgivings. We are talking about the death of an innocent person, a law abiding and peaceful citizen; someone who loved people, was a Muslim and a patriot. She was attacked and beaten by assailants during Ezzatollah Sahabi’s funeral procession and died. At least five independent people who were close to Haleh Sahabi have related this to me so far.

Some news agencies and government news sites, or those affiliated to it, launched a campaign to pretend that Haleh Sahabi died because her “heart stopped.” These writers don’t seem to pause and ask themselves but what was the cause of this heart failure. Has anyone ever died without a heart failure?

All of us will die one day because our heart will stop, so one must look into the causes of heart failure. If hearts just stopped pumping for no reason, then why the hearts of the assailants at Sahabi’s funeral not stop? How come the hearts of all those people who perpetrated the numerous hideous crimes after the 2009 presidential election in Iran did not or have not stopped? How come the heart of Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or that of Mr. Ahmad Janati, both of whom have all the signs of a heart failure, have not experienced the same fate as the heart of Haleh Sahabi?

Witnesses at Ezzatollah Sahabi’s funeral recount that plain-clothes agents were in a battle with people to seize his body and in the process struck Haleh and threw her down on the ground. One person who was under Sahabi’s coffin (whose name I will not mention because of safety issues) told me that even after throwing Haleh on the ground a number of assailants continued to kick her until she became unconscious, after which she passed this world. The reasons for her death were the strikes and kicks that she suffered at the hands and feet of her assailants, which made her unconscious and stopped her heart causing her death.

Ezzatollah Sahabi’s funeral ceremony could have been held quietly outside Tehran at a local cemetery without any incidents. All those who had come to the event did so out of respect and wanted to say their final farewells. They were all peaceful people with peaceful and honorable intentions. If the security assailants had no intention of terrorizing the mourners through the exercise of violence and criminal activity, then why did they attack the mourners who were burying a Muslim and who were doing what is normally done for any dead person?

Another evidence that supports the fact that Haleh was murdered is that security agents buried her body immediately after the event, which they did at night and under extremely tight security arrangements. Why? Why did they not allow an independent coroner to examine the body and determine the cause of death? Is there any reason other than that security officials feared that the real cause of death would be announced publicly?

Even people who were killed because of direct bullet firings and wounds during the last two years are claimed to have died because of illnesses or incidents. They have forced family members of these victims to sign papers that portray the cause of death of their dear ones to be natural death or some accidents.

In the murderous killings that took place at Kahrizak prison, officials announced that the deaths were caused by meningitis and the shortage of facilities. The death of Shahram Farajzadeh is another similar example, as are those of Shabnam Sohrabi, who were killed on the streets of Tehran in 2009, which officials claimed were accidents. We remember how the slow police vehicle drove over several bodies on the ground and later officials announced that those individuals died because of an accident when a private vehicle hit them. The witnesses to those events were subsequently detained for fear of the revelation of the truth. But is there anyone in Iran who does not know who are the real criminals of its youth and people?

Haleh Sahabi, the mother of peace, and a true child of this land, was killed. Haleh was also a member of the Green Movement whose only demand is that the rulers of this country obey the law and who made this demand peacefully and lawfully. This is not something that can be erased through lies and misinformation. Her blood shall remain as sacred as that of Sohrabs, Nedas, Amirs, Shabnams and Mohammads who have been murdered and then the crimes covered up. Those who have perpetrated these acts will one day face the wrath of the Iranian people. The blood of these people is so innocent and pure that they can never be smeared and the memory of those bodies in which they flowed shall never fade.