Not Israel, but the Ministry of Intelligence Fired at Us

Editorial Board of Amirkabir NewsLetter

Motahareh Goonei (student activist), in a brief account of her arrest on the social media platform X, shared images of bullet casings and bullet marks on the wall of the place where she was detained, describing the arrest as “simultaneously unprecedented and full-scale violence.”

She stated that during the arrest, “my right arm was fractured at the elbow, and at the Ministry of Intelligence-affiliated Ghamar Bani Hashem Hospital, they put it in a cast and splint, but it was removed at a safe house without supervision by a specialist doctor.” According to her, half of her fingers have gone numb, and she still suffers from limited mobility in that area.

Goonei also reported that four days after her arrest, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, she called her parents and learned that they had been “severely beaten, particularly in the face, by security agents” and had sought treatment from the forensic medical organization.

She added that Ministry of Intelligence agents “used live firearms inside the house and under a closed roof during the arrest, firing three bullets into the wall next to me, and the shell casings are still there.” The student activist wrote that the bullet marks and casings are still present on the walls of their home and emphasized, “It was not Israel, but the Ministry of Intelligence that fired at us.”

In another part of her account, Goonei spoke about the detention conditions and medical care for female prisoners, noting that since the bombing, some prisoners have been transferred to Evin, Qarchak, and Ghezel Hesar prisons, and that “fifteen traumatized female prisoners were denied proper medical care” during their transfer to a safe house. She claimed that while in Qarchak quarantine, she vomited blood due to anxiety, lack of medication, and a dry hunger strike, and that while “one of the guards was laughing,” she collapsed half-conscious beside a toilet pit.

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