"Regime-affiliated media is coming out with information about security forces storming a hospital in the western city of Ilam and dispersing protesters with shotgun pellets and tear gas."
"The Fars news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), published an article claiming that protesters were using the hospital as a "barracks." Fars claims that after security forces clashed with protesters in the city of Malekshahi on January 3, in the surrounding Ilam Province, injured protesters were transferred to Ilam's Imam Khomeini Hospital where "conditions in the hospital became inflamed." The news agency claimed that "the clashes spread from the hospital grounds to the surrounding streets and continued until last night.""
""Last night, during an operation by security forces, a number of protesters were arrested in the hospital and its surroundings," Fars claimed, adding that the conditions in the hospital are currently "almost normal.""
Regime-affiliated media reported security forces stormed a hospital in Ilam and dispersed protesters with shotgun pellets and tear gas. Norway-based NGO Hengaw accused authorities of trying to remove bodies of dead protesters from the hospital. The Fars news agency, affiliated with the IRGC, said protesters used the hospital as a "barracks" and that injured protesters from clashes in Malekshahi were transferred to Ilam's Imam Khomeini Hospital. Fars said "conditions in the hospital became inflamed," that clashes spread into surrounding streets, and that arrests were made during a security operation. Independent verification from protesters inside Ilam is being sought.
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