{"id":12923,"date":"2019-09-27T16:53:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=12923"},"modified":"2019-09-27T20:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T18:23:30","slug":"kurdish-porters-iran-poverty-kurdistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/09\/kurdish-porters-iran-poverty-kurdistan\/12923\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish porters in Iran under the hammer and anvil of poverty and bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<!--?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"--><html><body><p>Kurdish porters in Iran under the hammer and anvil of poverty and bullets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Daniel Mahdavi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tough economic situation caused by the\nmismanagement and corruption of the mullahs\u2019 rule have put the Iranian people\nin dire straits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While regime officials invest billions of\ndollars in luxury cars and luxury villas in good areas of Iran and their\nchildren\u2019s studies abroad, the people of Iran\u2019s Kurdish region, who are under\nextreme poverty and discrimination by the mullahs\u2019 regime, have turned to porting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Porting,\na tragic story of fight for bread and life<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-irgc-shoots-dead-porter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Porters  (opens in a new tab)\">Porters <\/a>are mainly people from the border regions of Iran who have turned to one of the most difficult and dangerous ways of earning a living, namely cargo transportation on their back on mountainous roads, one of the most primitive means of transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most\nof the porters are belonging to the western and northwestern provinces of Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Porting\nis a way of earning money in the provinces of Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan,\nKermanshah, Ilam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nporting has also become a common job in the Sistan and Baluchestan, the southwestern\nreaches of Iran mostly inhabited by the Baluchi minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Porters\nin the border areas of the Kurdish provinces of Iran face many problems for\ntheir livelihoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Impassable mountain roads, danger of falling, frostbite, falling in avalanches and shooting by border guards and <a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2019\/04\/12\/irgc-maryam-rajavi-mek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the Revolutionary Guards corps (opens in a new tab)\">the Revolutionary Guards corps<\/a> (IRGC) are among the dangers that the Kurdish porters, who live mostly in deprived areas, face on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nrttv.com\/Img\/2018\/11\/183201992433183201991021172201919187WWW3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Kurdish porters leave the house for\nwork, they have no hope of returning. Their lives become a choice between dying\nof starvation or earning a loaf of bread in the harshest possible way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Kurdistan, it is not only men porting, but\nalso youth such as young girls are porting. Every day, their lives are\nendangered not only by the regime\u2019s trigger-happy border guards, but also by minefields,\nroad accidents falling down of mountain or falling in the snow in the winter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.isna.ir\/d\/2017\/10\/03\/3\/57567857.jpg\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to various reports, during the first six months of\nthis year, from March 21, 2019 to September 22, at least 121 Kurdish porters\nwere killed or wounded in various areas of Kurdistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hengaw.net\/content\/upload\/1\/human-carriers\/azim-ahmadi.jpg\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\nFrom these victims, 84 percent of them were killed by the direct fire of the\nRevolutionary Guards (IRGC) border guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statistics confirm that Iranian border guards killed 27 Kurdish\nporters and wounded 77 others by direct fire during this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three of the Kurdish porters who were killed by direct fire by\nIranian forces were under 18 years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/iscanews.ir\/Media\/Image\/1395\/12\/22\/636249086128206235.jpg\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of porters have been killed in recent\nyears due to economic problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highest\nnumber of Kurdish porters who were killed or injured is from the West of Azerbaijan,\nwith 23 dead and 60 injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, some regime officials have previously acknowledged that the volume of smuggled goods imported by porters is relatively small compared to other sources. In fact, the Revolutionary Guards run the largest smuggling campaign in Iran, and the amount of money and goods they cross over the borders of Iran dwarfs the meager amounts that porters carry on their bent backs to make ends meet.<br> <br>The reality is that the suffering of the Iranian people\nwill not end unless the Iranian regime is overthrown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As long as the regime rules Iran, the wealth of the\nIranian people will be spent on terrorism and war in the region like Syria, Yemen\nand Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the solution to the problems of Iranian people and\nIranian ethnic minorities that have been discriminated against by this regime is only possible with the overthrow of the mullahs.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurdish porters in Iran under the hammer and anvil of poverty and bullets By Daniel Mahdavi The tough economic situation caused by the mismanagement and corruption of the mullahs\u2019 rule have put the Iranian people in dire straits. 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