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Iran State Media Claims Teenager 'Brain Dead' After Alleged Morality Police Assault
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The Facts
Armita Geravand, the teenage girl who fell into a coma earlier this month after allegedly being assaulted by the 'morality' police at a Tehran metro station for not wearing a hijab, is "brain dead" despite medical efforts, according to Iran's Tasnim news agency.
This comes nearly a fortnight after Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported that six doctors at Fajr Air Force Base Hospital treating the 16-year-old — whose level of consciousness had fallen to 3 on the Glasgow Coma Scale — told her family that she had no hope of recovery.
The Spin
Anti-Iran narrative
The Islamic Republic's morality police have yet again victimized a young girl so as to enforce a mandatory dress code. While journalists reporting on their inhumane behavior will be imprisoned, the victim's family will be forced to air fabricated views. The Iranian authorities are using the very same playbook they applied to malign Amini.
Pro-Iran narrative
The West has again resorted to distorting the facts of a sad incident in a smear campaign against the Islamic Republic. Such malicious allegations can only prove that Western countries don't care about human rights, as they have no qualms using women as a political tool against independent nations.
