NCRI – The State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – beat up a 60-year-old man for smoking in public in the western city of Khorramabad.
SSF agents paid no attention to the man who was shouting that he had just arrived in the city and did not mean any harm.
Shop keepers and onlookers stepped in to get the man freed. The local residents also tried to help the man by booing the SSF agents.
With the start of Ramadan last week in Iran, harsh treatment of those breaking the fast has added to people's problems with the mullahs' regime.
In a figure given by the deputy chief of the SSF on Tuesday, nearly 26,000 citizens have already received warring citations for breaking their fast in the streets.
In a directive issued a few days before Ramadan, the SSF ruled that no one is allowed to consume food or beverages in public.
