People helped us and put us into a car. I kept saying, ‘Please don’t take us to a hospital. Tara and her friend were taking part in a protest in the central Iranian city of Isfahan when security forces arrived on motorcycles and began shouting at demonstrators.
She said her friend pleaded with an armed security officer not to shoot. “As soon as she said it, he fired several shots at us. We fell to the ground and our clothes were soaked in blood,” Tara recalled.
Strangers rushed to help and placed them in a car, but Tara said they were terrified of going to a hospital because they feared arrest. “Every alley was filled with security forces. I asked a couple standing at their doorway to let us hide inside,” she said.
The two women stayed in the couple’s home until nearly dawn. Later, they found a doctor they knew, who treated the birdshot wounds on their legs. Tara said a surgeon later removed some of the pellets at home but warned that not all could be taken out and that some would remain in their bodies permanently.
The full extent of the violence linked to the security crackdown on anti-government protests across Iran this month remains unclear. Internet restrictions and limits on reporting by many international media outlets have made verification difficult.
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