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'There wasn't even time for CPR': Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters
BBC ^ | 2026.01.10 | Soroush Pakzad,Roja Assadi,BBC News Persian,andHelen Sullivan

Posted on 01/10/2026 4:03:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Staff at three hospitals in Iran have told the BBC their facilities are overwhelmed with dead or injured patients, as major anti-government protests continue.

A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode.

Two of the medical workers who spoke to the BBC said they treated gunshot wounds from both live ammunition and pellets.

On Friday, the US repeated that killing protesters would be met with a military response. Iran blamed the US for turning peaceful protests into what it called "violent subversive acts and widespread vandalism".

Reacting to the latest developments, President Trump posted on social media: "Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before. The USA stands ready to help!!!"

Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of death and injury

The protests began in the capital Tehran a fortnight ago over economic hardship.

They have since spread to more than 100 cities and towns across all of Iran's provinces. Hundreds of protesters are believed to have been killed and injured, and many more detained. BBC Persian has confirmed the identities of 26, including six children.

Members of the security forces have also been killed, with one human rights group putting the number at 14.

BBC Persian has verified that 70 bodies were brought to Poursina Hospital in Rasht city on Friday night. The morgue there was at full capacity, so the bodies were taken away. The authorities asked the relatives of the dead for 7 billion rials (£5,222; $7,000) to release them for burial, a hospital source said.

The BBC and most other international news organisations are unable to report from inside Iran, and the country has been...

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1 posted on 01/10/2026 4:03:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Maybe the Ayatollah needs some Rods from God.

2 posted on 01/10/2026 4:08:13 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A middle thinker (midwit) things everyone else is just like them

This isn’t the case. We don’t encourage our children to kill other innocent children. We do not celebrate their deaths as long as they took others with them.

We are not all alike


3 posted on 01/10/2026 4:10:49 PM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why does it still seem obvious that they’re going to put down this revolt, kill a whole bunch of people, imprison a whole bunch more, and then that will be the end of it?


4 posted on 01/10/2026 4:22:45 PM PST by montag813
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

SHOT DOWN BY THE VERY SAME ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT THEIR PARENTS AND GRAND-PARENTS RIOTED FOR IN 1979.


5 posted on 01/10/2026 4:41:55 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970s!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I do believe Trump and Netanyahu know exactly where the Ayatoilet is.
He and the mullahs were WARNED about killing Persians.
The clock is ticking……I hope the old geezer and the IRG get slammed.


6 posted on 01/10/2026 4:47:30 PM PST by doc maverick
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Staff at three hospitals in Iran have told the BBC their facilities are overwhelmed with dead or injured patients, as major anti-government protests continue.

I was in grad school at NCSU when the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis erupted. There were Muslims on campus demonstrating in support of the Ayatollah. I heard that they were going to show a film on campus of real time events. I went. No one hassled or spoke to me. I may have been the only gringo in the room of ~200 students. I recall seeing clips of corpses stacked in makeshift morgues. That scene caused many in the audience to click their tongues, which in the U.S. was an expression of sarcasm or mild disapproval. For them I took it to mean they were sympathizing for the fallen who were overthrowing the Shah.

7 posted on 01/10/2026 4:51:50 PM PST by MacNaughton
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Maybe the Ayatollah is headed for Moscow soon. He better hurry or he might be caught by his “Flock”.


8 posted on 01/10/2026 5:03:35 PM PST by Eli Kopter (Wherever you are, that is where you are supposed to be...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The IRGC shoots people in the eye with pellet guns. Nice! Hopefully they all get hunted down and stomped to death.


9 posted on 01/10/2026 5:14:48 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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To: E. Pluribus Unum

MAGA is on the march.


10 posted on 01/10/2026 5:16:27 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of death and injury .

So we have now reached a point in time where there has to be a warning before even a graphic description ??

Sad what this world has come to.

SHOW ME THE PICTURES !
LET ME JUDGE THE TRUTH !!!


11 posted on 01/10/2026 5:21:06 PM PST by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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To: bray

I am not optimistic, it looks like the regime will do whatever it takes to put down the rebellion, and Trump will have egg on his face if that happens.


12 posted on 01/10/2026 5:22:31 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Staff at three hospitals in Iran have told the BBC their facilities are overwhelmed with dead or injured patients, as major anti-government protests continue.

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BBC claims to have alleged staff at 3 hospitals telling them of being overwhelmed as anti government protests are alleged to be major and alleged to be ongoing.

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The BBC and most other international news organisations are unable to report from inside Iran, and the country has been.
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Final sentence which very clearly says all text prior to it is unreliable and indicates nothing.


13 posted on 01/10/2026 5:29:49 PM PST by Owen
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
On Friday, the US repeated that killing protesters would be met with a military response.

On the one hand I don't want to see the U.S. getting involved, but on the other our President has already done it, and we may have another Bay of Pigs here where "the people" rise up expecting support from the U.S. - which is not forthcoming - and then they get killed for their trouble.

14 posted on 01/10/2026 5:34:36 PM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: doc maverick

“ I do believe Trump and Netanyahu know exactly where the Ayatoilet is.
He and the mullahs were WARNED about killing Persians.
The clock is ticking……I hope the old geezer and the IRG get slammed.”
A well placed JDAM on his house would do the trick.


15 posted on 01/10/2026 5:43:23 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t believe anything being put out by the BBC regarding Iran.

-SB


16 posted on 01/10/2026 6:01:50 PM PST by Snowybear (Do or do not, there is no try.)
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To: tet68

I didn’t read or see anything in the article that would warrant a warning like that.


17 posted on 01/10/2026 7:12:02 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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