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40 Iranian Doctors and Nurses Describe a Massacre
New York Times ^ | February 25, 2026 | Roxana Saberi and Fatemeh Jamalpou

Posted on 02/26/2026 8:01:04 AM PST by Miami Rebel

In January, at the peak of the violent crackdown on.... protests in Iran, a medical worker in the northern city of Rasht suddenly found his trauma center overwhelmed with hundreds of injured protesters.

Many were struck by multiple pellets or bullets targeting their heads, necks, chests, femurs and abdomens....

...

“They want to sweep it under the rug."

.... Human Rights Activists News Agency, which tallies only victims it can identify, has reported at least 6,800 protest-related deaths, with an additional 11,744 cases under investigation.

Other estimates put the death toll much higher....

“It is one of the worst mass killings in contemporary world history.”

They also tried to silence....frontline medical workers.

[F]ollowing the bloodshed, which reached its height on Jan. 8 and 9, we contacted....doctors and nurses working in Iran...

....[W]e surveyed 40 Iranian doctors and nurses across 14 cities and 11 provinces about their experiences treating wounded protesters. They shared their stories with us at great personal risk....

This is what they told us. [40 testimonials follow]

Many of the accounts we received from the doctors and nurses inside Iran were of children under 18 who were injured or killed. The youngest was a newborn.

“A breastfeeding mother was holding her baby when security forces opened fire on their car....The bullet passed through the baby’s hand and into the mother’s chest.”

A nurse from the central city of Isfahan sent us testimony from one boy’s father....:

“We had gone to the streets to protest. The officers attacked my son, targeting his head and neck with a pellet gun. I begged the riot police to stop. But before my own eyes, they fired the final shot — a live bullet — into his head.”....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ataturk; iran
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To: alternatives?; pookie18
...Isn’t the replacement government going to be Muslim as well?

Who knows? I do know that over 350 Mosques have been burned down according to regime sources. The opposition claims over 7000. That would suggest the people want something other than Islam.

21 posted on 02/26/2026 10:21:51 AM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Miami Rebel

I heard they sunk the USS Maine and threw babies out of incubators too.


22 posted on 02/26/2026 10:30:54 AM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Miami Rebel

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23 posted on 02/26/2026 10:35:32 AM PST by sauropod
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To: jimtorr
The fact that Iran is responsible for likely more than half the terrorism against U.S. interests since the mid 1980’s, even while they were fighting Iraq, is.

Yes. It is imperative that the mullahcracy be ended and replaced with a more democratic form of government.

24 posted on 02/26/2026 10:35:43 AM PST by Allegra (We will not be emotionally blackmailed into backing off what we voted for. )
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To: Kazan

Stop the gaslighting! We should have finished off those mullahs when our hostages were being held for months. Instead we’ve let them sow misery everywhere for 47 years.

When they get a nuke and send it over to blow. up one of our cities How many American lives will be in harms way? 🙄


25 posted on 02/26/2026 10:47:42 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Miami Rebel

bump


26 posted on 02/26/2026 12:06:36 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Sorrells Pickard)
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To: Kazan

And you will be happy about it.


27 posted on 02/26/2026 12:20:46 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Nateman

I had seen that but there are different factions of Muslims. Shiite, etc. that hate each other much worse than Baptists/Methodists etc.


28 posted on 02/26/2026 12:21:26 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: Nateman

Our Left would blame Trump in a heartbeat.


29 posted on 02/26/2026 12:25:40 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: cowboyusa
I'm the one, jackass, that is trying warn the President not to commit political suicide by going to war with Iran and to keep his promise to keep us of unnecessary foreign wars.

You're too stupid to even realize how disaster doing so woul be.

You're child-like dunce.

30 posted on 02/26/2026 3:15:12 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Georgia Girl 2
We should have finished off those mullahs when our hostages were being held for months

So, you're ticked off the Ronald Reagan, the author of the modern-day peace through strength doctrine, didn't react like George W. Bush did?

31 posted on 02/26/2026 3:17:32 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Kazan

I trust President Trump to make that decision even ther better aU, you apparently don’t. He has earned that trust over and over again.


32 posted on 02/26/2026 3:17:53 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Kazan
He makes a decision you don't like and you are ready to turn him n him. Well KD is also either him, and JD is going to be the Nominee. You will just have to deal with it.
33 posted on 02/26/2026 3:20:06 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Kazan

JD is going to be the Nominnee and he agrees with President Trump.


34 posted on 02/26/2026 3:21:05 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: alternatives?
Your post about the Young Turks got me digging into history. Did you know  that they were heavily involved in the Armenian Genocide?  They considered themselves defenders of Islam.

That , however , is not the central purpose of this reply.  It is an incredible documentary by no less than Walter Cronkite himself! Remember the TV series ' The 20th Century'? I do. I use to really enjoy watching it as a kid. Turns out it ran a documentary on Ataturk : The Incredible Turk! Enjoy!

35 posted on 02/26/2026 5:37:12 PM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Kazan

Look your a peace bot. I get it. News flash, all regime change isn’t equal. Iran is a good one. The mullahs need to go. The whole world will be delighted.


36 posted on 02/26/2026 6:41:17 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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