Four Kurdish porters, drenched in their blood, were shot by Iranian border guards over the past two weeks, according to Al-Ain News Agency.

Iranian parliament member for Kurdish nationalism Behzad Rahimi said "over the past two weeks, security forces killed 4 Kurdish nationals working as porters, transporting goods on their backs."

The Iranian "Shafaqna" news agency quoted Rahimi as saying that the average age of young people killed by Iranian border guards was "30 years."

"Unfortunately, despite the follow-up and announcing that such incidents will not be seen again, 4 young men, the average age of 30 years, were shot dead by the Iranian border guards," he added.

"We have repeatedly warned the authorities that if they are suspected, they are arrested or fired with rubber bullets, but they shoot them directly in the heart and head, and unfortunately these people are killed," he continued.

The Kurds constitute about 10% of Iran's total population of nearly 85 million people, and their regions suffer from poverty and a fragile economy, as a result of the neglect of the Wilayat al-Faqih regime for them.

The Kurdish "Hengaw" organization documented late last year, the killing of 31 Kurdish workers carrying goods on their backs last August on the borders with Turkey and the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

In light of the spread of poverty and unemployment in Iran, the Kurdish people are forced to earn a living by transporting goods on board to and from Iran, but Iran considers these movements a smuggling process and punishes its workers.

Reports indicate that there are about 80,000 Kurdish nationals working in the profession of transporting goods on their backs between the rugged mountains.