Iran: Protesting farmers clash with security forces

Violent scenes erupted in the city of Varzaneh in Iran on Wednesday afternoon when Iranian regime’s State Security Forces attacked farmers who had protested water shortages.

The SSF anti-riot squads attack on protesters left at least four people killed including a woman and 160 farmers were arrested

During the clashes with the SSF and plainclothes agents three buses carrying state security forces and a government office was set ablaze by the protestors.The protesters who had brought their agricultural vehicle such as tractors have said that the Iranian regime has turned the Zayandehrood River into a parched valley.The Zayanderood begins on the central plateau of Iran and supplies water to people in the central Iran provinces of Isfahan and Yazd - but it has dried over the four summers due to mismanagements by the Iranian regime authorities.

The farmers living in the region are dependent upon the water from the river.

Varzaneh - the centre of the unrest - is the capital of the Bon Rud District in Isfahan County, Isfahan Province and has a population of 11,506 according to the 2006 census.