Posted on 01/13/2026 5:58:20 AM PST by Freeleesy
Iran is under a coordinated blackout aimed not only at security control but at concealing the truth. Internet cuts, crippled communications, media shutdowns, and intimidation of journalists and witnesses point to one goal: preventing a vast and historic crime from being seen.
In recent days, after receiving scattered but shocking and deeply troubling reports, Iran International has focused on verifying information to build a clearer picture of the scale of repression and the killings during the latest protests.
In a country where authorities deliberately restrict access to information, such an assessment is difficult and time-consuming – particularly because rushing to publish incomplete casualty figures risks errors in documenting events and could distort the true scale of this tragedy.
From Sunday, the volume of evidence and the convergence of accounts reached a point where a relatively accurate assessment became possible.
Over the past two days, Iran International’s editorial board has reviewed – through a rigorous, multi-stage process and in accordance with established professional standards – information received from a source close to the Supreme National Security Council; two sources in the presidential office; accounts from several sources within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the cities of Mashhad, Kermanshah, and Isfahan; testimonies from eyewitnesses and families of those killed; field reports; data linked to medical centers; and information provided by doctors and nurses in various cities..
But some crazy lady trying to run over a cop getting killed is a bigger tragedy to the DNC. Trump is the real dictator.
Maybe when they kill 100,000 we will lend support.
As much as I don’t really care what happens in Iran, we SAID we had their back. Lies?
Words mean things. People need to stop writing checks they can’t cash. People get killed when others can’t back their words with action.
We need to seal the deal on these effing mullahs. 45 years of their insanity is enough. The world will immediately be a much better place. For once I’m in agreement with Lindsay Graham.
For his next trick, President Trump will get the Democrats to support the Ayatollah Khomeini. Just watch him work his magic.
And how much bloodshed around the world was/is linked to 1979 revolution...
And (2 at Golden Globe) adopting her surname “be Good” as if she was some saint...
Iran is 93M, or it was.
Let's get it down to 1M and buy. Should be able to grab some Caspian Sea and Kish Island premium properties cheap and yet have enough mutts left to do the laundry.
Hezbollah and Hamas alone created so much death and misery.
Of course they are making her a saint, she is to the Communists. They are hoping for more saints in the future.
Both of them are financed by Iran. Hamas and Hezbollah cannot exist without help from Iran and Qatar.
Hamas and Hezbollah? Smokem when you Got Em.
Islam is a religion of peace.
Isn’t it?
W said so.
We need to lend support by getting arms in large numbers to the protesters so they can defend themselves. That is the only way they have a chance.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601138196
Iran protests death toll could be as high as 20,000 - CBS News.
At least 12,000 people, and possibly as many as 20,000, have been killed during nationwide protests in Iran, CBS News reported, citing two sources including one inside Iran, hours after Iran International earlier reported a death toll of up to 12,000, largely over two consecutive nights of protests on January 8 and 9.
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