Iran slams West over remarks on hospitalized teen

Iran lashes out at “biased remarks” from Western countries after the allegations that a teenage girl was critically wounded in a confrontation with security agents on Tehran’s subway.

Iran has denied Garawand was assaulted, with the official news agency IRNA saying the student fainted due to “a drop in blood pressure” as she tried to board a train.

On Wednesday, diplomats from the United States and Germany reacted to the incident.

“Once again a young woman in Iran is fighting for her life. Just because she showed her hair on the subway,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Abram Paley, the acting US special envoy on Iran, posted on X that Washington was “shocked and concerned about reports that Iran’s so-called morality police have assaulted” the teenager.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani hits back.

“Instead of interventionist and biased remarks and expressing insincere concern over Iranian women and girls, you’d better be concerned about US, German and UK healthcare personnel, patients and tackle their situation,” he writes on X.

Masood Dorosti, managing director of the Tehran subway system, denies there was “any verbal or physical conflict” between Garawand and “passengers or metro staff.”

Iranian CCTV tracks the metro trip of Armita Geravand, who western media claims was beaten up by 'morality police.' She can be seen here entering the train with her friends, then stumbling and fainting at the doorway, after which her friends carried her back onto the platform. https://t.co/v4CSVjGDzt

— Sharmine Narwani (@snarwani) October 5, 2023