Injuries of 'More than 91,000 People' Due to Fights in Tehran

The Director General of Forensic Medicine in Tehran Province announced that in the past ten months, 91,288 people have visited forensic medical centers in the province due to 'injuries from fights.' According to Fars News Agency, Bashir Nazparvar stated on Saturday, March 6, that this figure, calculated until the end of December this year, shows a 1.9% increase compared to the same period last year when the number of 'fight visitors' to forensic centers was 89,561. Nazparvar noted that 60,191 of the injured were men and 31,097 were women. She emphasized that in the same period last year, 59,175 of the fight visitors were men and 30,386 were women. Nazparvar also mentioned that the number of people visiting forensic centers in Tehran due to fights in December increased by 12.7% compared to the same month last year, with 7,926 people seeking medical attention due to injuries from fights. Experts attribute the rise in conflicts and fights in Iran to economic problems, poverty, unemployment, drug use, disputes over property, overpricing, frustration and social pressure, sexual dissatisfaction, and lack of training in anger management. Meanwhile, Khabar Online previously reported that last year, 617,358 people in various provinces of Iran visited forensic centers after fights. Additionally, according to Morteza Talai, a member of the Tehran City Council, about 107,000 street fights occurred in Tehran last year. Reports indicate that each year, some street fights result in fatalities. Abolfazl Abutalebi, a member of the Iranian Parliament's Judicial Commission, previously stated that '1,100 cases of murder with cold weapons occur annually in the country, 90% of which happen in street fights among young people.' Meanwhile, the Deputy for Combating Serious Crimes of the Criminal Investigation Police noted that 799 people were killed with cold weapons in 2012, with 75% of these murders being 'unplanned and without prior intent.' He cited minor disputes, such as disagreements over parking spaces, car accidents, complaints about loud motorcycle noise or mobile phone use, and bumping into each other on sidewalks as causes of many street fight-related murders. One of the most notable fights this year involved a group attacking a hospital in Ardabil with knives last November. In this context, 'the attack of 10 people with knives on a hospital in Ardabil' led to 76,000 Tehran residents visiting forensic medicine, from the import of $6 billion worth of knives to Iran to the referral of 6,000 fight cases.