Family says Mansoureh Sagvand died of heart attack, debunking anti-Iran media lies
The death of young Iranian woman Mansoureh Sagvand was caused by a cardiac arrest, her relatives and a Judiciary official said, dismissing hostile allegations leveled against the country by foreign-based media outlets.
Chief Justice of Ilam Province Omran Alimohammadi said on Monday that Sagvand, a 20-year-old student at Abdanan City, told her friend in a Sunday phone call that she was not feeling well.
He added that Sagvand’s friend rushed to her home and found her lying on the ground, after which she immediately called emergency services.
While the young woman showed no vital signs, she was transferred to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead as a result of cardiac arrest, he noted.
Alimohammadi added that the coroner’s office reported that no sign of beating was observed on Sagvand’s body.
One of Sagvand’s relatives also confirmed cardiac arrest as the cause of her death, saying any comments by foreign-based media outlets are sheer lies.
Certain anti-Iran media outlets claimed that Sagvand was an honorary member of the Khorramabad police force and lost her life suspiciously after announcing her resignation to join the “protests” that erupted across Iran last year.
Some self-styled activists also charged that Iranian state institutions are responsible for her death due to recurrent threats she received after her resignation.
This is not the first time that the anti-Iran media outlets blame Iranian security forces for the death of an individual, without providing any evidence.
Months earlier, the media outlets, including the UK-based BBC Persian and Voice of America’s VOA Farsi, had alleged that a 23-year-old Iranian girl had been “killed with two live bullets [fired at her] by [Iranian] security forces.”
Iran’s Mizan Online news agency reported on Thursday that the fugitive murderer of the girl, identified as Nasim Sedghi, was extradited to the country after spending many months at large overseas.
Riots broke out across in Iran in September last year, when 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini passed away, three days after she collapsed at a police station. At the time, the same hostile media outlets attributed her death to beatings by police forces, but a thorough investigation carried out afterward concluded that she died as a result of a medical condition.
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