Low quality article from The Guardian. Pretty much entirely composed of quotes from the family with no independent corroboration. According to The Canary (so take it with a pinch of salt) a former Guardian journalist recently admitted to publishing a wholly false anti-Iran story back in 2010 so I’m a bit more skeptical than usual.
I tried finding more detail and it was mostly trash sites republishing the same content but I did find this article from an Iranian human rights group based in the US (again, pinch of salt) that has some more detail. According to them these twins are part of the “Isfahan Shohada Square case”.
16 citizens were arrested and prosecuted on charges including “moharebeh (enmity against God) through carrying bladed weapons,” “destruction of public property,” “assembly and collusion,” and “propaganda against the regime.”
It’s a bit murky. I don’t really know what to make of it. Are these inflated charges against legitimate protesters or is there more to it?
If I can find this context through a quick Google though why can’t The Guardian?
The truth is usually somewhere in the middle.
That nose is straight out of Whoville
