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| A young Iranian Arab man |
Ayoung Iranian Arab man from the town of Mahshahr, south-western Iran, on Sunday
committed suicide out of poverty on his father's grave.
A
photo of the young man who had died after he slit his artery on his father's
grave on Sunday evening has been published on Iranian weblogs, with an
explanation that poverty and destitution led to him taking his life.
Numerous
cases of self-immolation in Iran in recent months have drawn special attention,
including the cases of Omid Rashedi, 36, from the south-western city of Ahwaz;
Mansour Keyhani, a retired teacher from Sanghar, western Iran; Ali Akbari, 45,
a laborer from Tehran; Hamid Farokhi, 43, a street vendor from Tabriz,
north-west Iran; and Youness Asakareh, 31, a laborer from Khorramshahr,
south-western Iran. In all these cases, the self-immolations had an element of
protest against the ruling mullahs' regime.
