According to a source, security police in iran are apparently shooting defenceless women in the face, breasts, and genitalia as anti-hijab demonstrations continue. Security authorities have previously brutally suppressed protesters in iran with batons and handcuffs. According to The Guardian, which cited medical professionals who treated the gunshot wounds, the "birdshot pellets" that security personnel fired on protestors from close range were intended to hit women's faces, breasts, and genitalia.

The US media site obtained images of victims who had dozens of small "shot" balls embedded deeply in their flesh. However, men also sustained back, buttock, and leg wounds. According to a doctor who was quoted, men and women are targeted differently. "I treated a woman in her early 20s who was shot in her genitals by two pellets. Ten other pellets were lodged in her inner thigh.

These 10 pellets were easily removed, but those two pellets were a challenge, because they were wedged in between her urethra and vaginal opening," the doctor said. The article stated that some of the other medical personnel accused security forces, especially the notorious pro-regime Basij militia, of disobeying riot control procedures such shooting firearms at feet and legs to protect vital organs.

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