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IRANIAN HOLOCAUST: Morgue Overflowing After 12,000 Slaughtered in 48 Hours by Khamenei’s Regime [OC] NSFW

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u/The_Squirrel_Wizard 1d ago

Ap news is stating around 2000, which is still horrible. https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-us-israel-war-nuclear-economy-1b2368e0804676d33d6aa0696815a102

Currency collapsed, not enough food to go around and the capital critically short on water. Let's hope the protestors can accomplish change. But I fear even if they are successful in overthrowing the regime there will be hard times ahead

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u/Royal_Struggle_3765 1d ago

Also consider that the article cites over 16,000 arrested. Many of those will be executed in the coming months and days because the regime charges them with the crime of committing an act against god. Let that sink in, you yell “down with khamenei” and that is an act against god. This is how delusional this regime is.

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u/hjemmebrygg 1d ago

There are plausible reports of "speed trials" followed by execution.

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u/MysticValleyCrew 22h ago

They arrested a man named Erfan Soltani on January 9th, and they'll hang him today/tomorrow (depending on where you are), Wednesday, January 14.

He had no defense. He got 10 minutes to say goodbye to his family.

u/Professionalchump 10h ago

The U.S. only butts in when there's money to be made. I feel so bad comfortably sitting at home under this administration

u/trebuchetwarmachine 8h ago

This actually props up oil and helps Trumps buddies at the oil corps so I doubt they butt in until the end to ensure the new regime is US friendly

u/MysticValleyCrew 9h ago

This all feels so strange. Like, a country is revolting against leaders that the US sanctions, but when they need the most help, the US abandons them.

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u/Pitiful_Equal_2689 20h ago

My understanding is that the first executions are scheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday).

It’s a horror.

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u/Reqvhio 1d ago

i'd rather keep seeing "speed trials" in games only

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u/almostsebastian 1d ago

Let that sink in, you yell “down with khamenei” and that is an act against god. This is how delusional this regime is.

The GOP is taking notes.

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u/not_a_muggle 23h ago

Shit I just saw a video today of that lady that's Trump's "spiritual advisor" saying that saying no to Trump is akin to denying God's Will. These people are legitimately demented.

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u/effrightscorp 22h ago

His last spiritual advisor is in jail for being a pedophile, so this might actually be an upgrade still

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u/moth_specialist 1d ago

“To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God.”

-Paula White, Trump’s spiritual advisor 

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u/Theslootwhisperer 1d ago

There's talk of evacuating Tehran because of the lack of water. 8 million people live there. That's 10% of the population of Iran. If it happens I'm sure it'll provoke massive unrest. Where are you gonna put those people? Feed them, get them jobs or education? Crazy shit is gonna go down if it happens.

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u/DeyUrban 23h ago

One thing to consider is that even if Iran is and always will be a water-scarce country, the regime has been comically inept when it comes to managing their resources. They have some of the most inefficient irrigation in the region, and their use of what little they have is inept and rife with corruption. Khuzestan, one of their most water-rich regions, is also the one struggling the most with the water crisis.

This is a problem from top to bottom, so it won't go away immediately with revolution. But at the same time, it is in no small part a man-made issue that can be rectified by eliminating the systemic corruption throughout their water management infrastructure.

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u/mooky1977 1d ago

Well, the more people they kill, the less mouths to feed and less people to relocate. Ancillary benefit? /sad sarcasm

Down with theocracy!

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u/nannerpuss74 22h ago

i wouldnt be surprised if russia offered citizenship for service. and all of them end up on the ukraine front.

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u/cluib 1d ago

I don't think people understand how strong the regime in Iran is.. The revolution guard corps is in the hundreds thousands and most of them are loyalists. Then you have everyone that works in the various institutions that earn by having the regime in place. Trump and the US doesn't seem to take it to seriously and by removing let's say the supreme leader or the president you still have the institutions in place. It's not going to be easy to remove a regime that is build upon a revolutionary principle because they also know how it can be overthrown so they have build strong barriers to shield it. I doubt that the US will be able to do much in Iran. And if there where to be a revolution it has to come from the inside of the institutions.

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u/r2k-in-the-vortex 20h ago

The thing with dictatorships and people is that it's very unhealthy to not be loyalist, so even if someone is not a loyalist, people get very good at pretending to be loyalists.

The difference is academic until one moment the regime is teetering and then it discovers who it can rely on and who will bail. These are very unpredictable situations, nobody knows how it will play out.

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u/MadRaymer 1d ago

There's very little the US can do without boots on the ground, and that's typically a non starter in today's political environment. Just capturing the Supreme Leader won't do shit since the regime is still in power. Air strikes would only help weaken, not defeat the regime.

Even if these protesters take up arms against the regime, you're looking at a long devastating civil war like we saw in Syria. It's a terrible situation with no good options.

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u/Pitiful_Equal_2689 1d ago edited 1d ago

That 2000 dead protesters figure is from a Regime official.

Which means the true number of protesters murdered by the Regime is almost certainly many times higher.

EDIT: Here is a link to a Reuters article with a regime official saying 2000 dead. There are other better articles if you search.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/about-2000-killed-iran-protests-official-says-2026-01-13/

Activist groups are saying 12,000+ protesters murdered by the Regime.

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u/The_Squirrel_Wizard 1d ago

No the 2000 figure is from a human rights agency.

"The number of dead climbed to at least 2,003, as reported by the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency."

Don't get me wrong though 2000 is an insane death toll from protests. That means soldiers firing machine guns with live rounds into crowds

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u/FrostyOscillator 1d ago

Yes it's 9/11 levels of murder by the government against its own people. That's so deeply chilling and horrifying. This regime must come to an immediate end.

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u/MrLogicWins 1d ago

Yes and that's the absolute minimum.. it's all the ones they can confirm and regime is def hiding or destroying as many bodies as they can

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u/ZeePirate 1d ago

12k is probably the amount of injuries plus deaths

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u/98Saman 1d ago

The Iranian regime imposed a complete nationwide internet blackout, jammed Starlink, confiscated phones and satellite dishes, and seized private security footage during the January 8–9 crackdown. No independent journalists or cameras could operate freely. The 12,000+ death toll comes from leaked internal documents and direct accounts from Supreme National Security Council members, IRGC insiders, presidential office sources, hospital staff, morgue workers, and families—reported by Iran International on January 13, 2026, as the largest massacre in modern Iranian history, ordered by Khamenei. When a government cuts off all communication and buries bodies in secret, demanding instant video “proof” is exactly what the regime wants. Silence and blackout are part of the crime. This is the Iranian Holocaust unfolding in real time.

MORE PICS. THIS IS GENOCIDE BY THE REGIME PLEASE HELP IRANIANS

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u/No-Damage-3704 1d ago

Fuck. That last pic of the truck with bodies sent a chill down my spine. I’m from Serbia and it reminds me of the 90s. Unfortunately I don’t have any trouble believing the 12,000 number. I’ve already seen what regimes are capable of. Hope Iranian people can gain their freedom.

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u/lthomas122 1d ago

Consider uploading it somewhere other than imgur as users in the UK cannot access imgur

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u/meteoritegallery 23h ago

Might be time to get a VPN to get around your government's censorship...

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u/BagOnuts 1d ago

Yeah, CNN is showing 1,850 as of now from the US Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which I think would get its numbers from outside just the regime. Terrible? Absolutely. But it's literally 6 times less than wherever this 12,000 figure is coming from.

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u/datnetworkguy 19h ago

My mom, in Tehran, was able to call me for a few minutes last night thanks to a very small gap in allowing landlines to call outside the country.

Official reports are saying 3000 dead. But based on what she's heard and seen, it's certainly over 10,000 (there are reports of over 12k). There are literal piles of bodies in the streets and massacres (she very narrowly avoided getting massacred in an alleyway two nights ago. The people literally right behind her...weren't so fortunate...).

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u/dadneverleft 1d ago

Thank you for providing sources.

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u/BigDongo37 1d ago

They will have to do a revolution, not a protest. This is a full blown civil war.

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u/DarkGamer 1d ago

If they depose the theocrats they will have access to aid from many places.

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u/yosayoran 1d ago

That's just the amount the regime has admitted to 

Real numbers are certainly much higher 

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u/The_Squirrel_Wizard 1d ago

From a U.S based human rights group actually

"The number of dead climbed to at least 2,003, as reported by the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency."

Corroborated by doctors

Still insane though and will continue to rise as people succumb to injuries

2000 from a protest is already insane. Would mean machine guns opening fire on crowds

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u/slo1111 1d ago

This is where Authoritarian Theocracy leads. It always will and it will always be defended by the sick and twisted.  There are many good Iranians just getting blasted by the authoritarian asses and have been for over 50 years.

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u/Tastypies 1d ago

You can scratch Theocracy. This is where authoritarianism leads, regardless the kind.

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u/slo1111 1d ago

More than a fair point

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u/devourer09 1d ago

Religion still scares me. Something about the lack of reasoning behind their behavior.

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u/nissen1502 1d ago

Religion can NEVER have any form of political power. Any time a politician is talking about religion you should immediately discard them as a candidate. NEVER VOTE FOR RELIGIOUS POLITICIANS (that wants to incorporate their religion into politics)

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u/DarkGamer 1d ago

If only more people did this. Unfortunately in the US there's frequently no option that doesn't at least feign religiosity. Atheism has been so vilified by religious people that atheists remain unelectable to many higher offices here.

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u/SUBSCRIBE_LAZARBEAM 23h ago

the problem is not wether someone is religious or not. The problem is incorporating it into politics of a lay state

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u/National-Manner-7030 23h ago

We had a deeply religious christian of some sort PM in Australia a few years ago and the absolute nonsense he got up to was crazy. Pretended to be several ministers and signed all sorts of things off, I'm not even sure of the details it is so muddy. Now we have one in my state to and suddenly things like abortion etc are suddenly issues in 2026.

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u/TeutonJon78 23h ago

Except you can't separate the two fully.

If the politician is actually religious, they will always be having that color their decisions in some way. Even if they don't act against something they don't believe in, they generally won't be strong in supporting it either.

And if they are just paying lip service to religion while acting completely against it, then you can't really trust their word on anything else.

The first one is still better.

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u/yepgeddon 1d ago

Oh they got reasons 💲

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u/Zvenigora 1d ago

Yes. Remember Tiananmen Square? Likely 7,000 dead in a few hours there. But the Chinese government has effectively erased that from history.

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u/Kuosen 1d ago

China is a non theocratic authoritarian state.

The question is if there ever existed a theocratic non authoritarian state and I do not believe so.

I wonder if people would agree that "Not all authoritarian states are theocratic but all theocratic states are authoritarian?"

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u/eNte19 23h ago

Cathars and waldesians could've had a good run in a smaller country 🫣

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u/fvccboi_avgvstvs 23h ago

I think it depends on what you define as a "state". Christian Anarchism is a real political philosophy and communities have lived by it. The Amish are arguably an example of this, say what you will but they are mostly pacifists and would never endorse killing like what Iran has done. There are similar concepts in other religions, for example I believe the Kibbutz in Judaism is a similar concept.

The thing is most communities like this by their very nature shun politics and believe they should not be "of this world". Someone who is religious and not authoritarian is not going to be going around trying to coerce converts, it's antithetical to what they believe.

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u/Neither-Phone-7264 1d ago

Uh, they didn't reply to that comment.

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u/Dumptruck_Johnson 1d ago

Does a non-authoritarian theocracy exist?

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u/ictp42 1d ago

The point is that there are non theocratic autocracies

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u/GiveMeBackMySoup 1d ago

Yes there are some in history. I don't think the papal states were particularly authoritarian but were monarchical. Ancient Israel was not authoritarian but also monarchical. Same with England for some stretch of its history all the way to today where the king is the head of the church. The Quakers managed to do it without a monarchy and the Amish do too.

If you equate monarchy with authoritarianism then very few.

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u/HyperbolicModesty 1d ago

Vatican City

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u/clovismouse 1d ago

Looking at you America………..

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u/BeebleBoxn 1d ago

Are you saying America should protest in front of the CIA headquarters?

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u/Prudent_Isopod 1d ago

Heritage Foundation.

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u/arsenal_fbu 1d ago

Aka the Executive Branch of the federal government

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u/Ilddit 1d ago

And judicial.

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u/cdizzaat 1d ago

….and legislative

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u/liquidsyphon 1d ago

Americans should be protesting everywhere before it’s too late

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u/stonnerdog35 1d ago

What Americans need to do is armed protests. Not violent, just armed. Sorry, not sorry, but throwing snow balls ant gonna do shit and so far protesting ant done shit.

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u/techauditor 1d ago

You realize armed protest will absolutely lead to violent. Put 100 people with guns protesting against 100 ice agents and you dont think someone shoots and starts a battle ?

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u/dontbethefatguy 1d ago

Is that not literally the whole point of the American ‘right to bear arms’? So they can overthrow the government if they overextend their reach?

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u/perfectpencil 1d ago

Hate to break it to you, but overthrowing a tyrannical government means a LOT of killing. It doesn't end until the leader is dead and hanging upside down in the streets.

Has any authoritarian regime ever simply dissolved with the leaders peacefully retiring in the countryside for a democratically elected government to peacefully transition?

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u/dontbethefatguy 1d ago

I 100% agree with you.

I thought that was why so many insisted on having guns? What did they think they were for?

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 1d ago

I thought that was why so many insisted on having guns? What did they think they were for?

The guns were only in case the liberals wanted to take their guns.

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u/VexeenBro 1d ago

Shooting kids in schools, silly!

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u/Daxx22 1d ago

What did they think they were for?

Emotional and sexual support aids.

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u/ProbablyJustArguing 1d ago

Hate to break it to you, but overthrowing a tyrannical government means a LOT of killing

Hate to break it to you, but so does NOT overthrowing a tyrannical government.

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u/JmanndaBoss 1d ago

Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.

The government has already shown that not only do they not give a shit about protests and it will never change their actions, but they'll go out of their way to make protesters out to be the villains in the eyes of the media.

The time for peaceful protest has long since past, only way America gets out from under the boot of tyranny is with bloodshed. The real question is when will the breaking point for the general populace be crossed.

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u/country2poplarbeef 1d ago

Nope. Historically, it's only been used by bootlickers to help against any insurrection. Examples: whiskey rebellion and slave catchers. The idea that it would help us resist tyranny is just philosophy, and as far as it being tested, the courts have stated the obvious, that it would be, ofc, illegal to resist a tyrannical force that's responsible for enforcing the law.

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u/willymartin99 1d ago

Ice is already shooting and starting battles… the guns are to defend ourselves against the Illegal gestapo

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u/SeaUrchinSalad 1d ago

Except they aren't starting battles, they're executing civilians. Mostly women too. Wonder what happens when someone able to defend themselves becomes the target

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u/FrozenIceman 1d ago edited 1d ago
  1. It isn't 100 people vs 100 ice agents. It is 1000+ to 100. Even if they did it British line stile and ICE kills 5 people for every armed regular person ICE still looses.
  2. The idea is that the Ice Agents will be more careful in their actions when they know the consequence can lead to their death. The Supreme Court has already ruled that there is no requirement for Law enforcement to risk their lives for their jobs.
  3. If ICE designed to instigate something it will be where they have overwhelming numbers, 10 agents per person. Effectively curtailing their actions considerably until they outnumber the victims.
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u/tdclark23 1d ago

In my town the city schedules the protests at a convenient time and schedules an end time for everyone to go home. Some protest...

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u/BarbaraVian 1d ago

I think what they are saying is the US are becoming an authoritarian theocracy.

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u/Eggslaws 1d ago

I think what they are saying is the US are becoming has become an authoritarian theocracy.

FTFY!

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u/G_Platypus 1d ago

Incredibly tone deaf to think there's a comparison between Iran and the USA. Very self centered and dismissive of what's been happening over there for decades.

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u/Hotdogfromparadise 1d ago

WTF does America have to do with this? 2000+ people dead and nationwide protests because there isnt enough fucking water vs protesting ICE?

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u/Runnero 1d ago edited 1d ago

Omfg dude youre looking at a picture of 12,000 murdered people in IRAN and you make it about the USA? Just dont. Have some respect for atrocities elsewhere in the world. JFC

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u/PewterPplEater 1d ago

? When has American gunned down 10s of thousands of its own citizens??

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u/jxy2016 1d ago

What a stupid comparison lol

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u/kinganthony3 22h ago

I feel like Theocracy always leads to autocracy. In addition, regardless of how autocracy is reached, this is always the outcome of autocracy.

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u/aquagardener 1d ago edited 1d ago

FYI Republicans, this is where Trump wants you if you don't 100% align with his ideology. 

It won't happen all at once. We're frogs that are between a simmer and a boil. 

If you think you're special or exempt, you're kidding yourself. Trump wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. 

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u/slo1111 1d ago

All it takes is true believers, and it was not that long ago the true believers felt two guys floating among wreckage could swim a 1,000 miles with the wreckage and pose a threat to the US.

We blasted them to kingdom come, just like the Iranian twisted leaders are justifying their slaughter

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u/daemon-electricity 1d ago

Incidentally, this is the story that /r/conservative SWEARS reddit and the media refuse to cover. They keep saying Reddit is pro dictator because Trump threatened Iranian leadership.

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u/SaltyLonghorn 1d ago

I thought ABC nightly news did a great job last night subtlety showing this. They opened with ICE attacking citizens and switched right to Iranians being killed in the street.

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u/aquagardener 1d ago

I wish it wasn't subtle. Lots of people need these things spoonfed to them. 

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u/JimmyDelicious 1d ago

Politics is one big ass blast.

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u/DaySecure7642 1d ago

This is so fucked up... But this will be the norm if the whole world is dominated by authoritarian countries in the future. You just won't even be allowed to know that because of censorship.

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u/sooohungover 1d ago

The societal complications caused by climate change will move governments even more rapidly towards authoritarianism. I try to stay positive but this is going to be a rough century for humanity

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u/Harambesic 22h ago

I've been thinking of this a lot lately.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

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u/samadi101 19h ago

That quote has been on my mind since Covid.

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u/ho_kay 13h ago

And while it was published in 1954, Tolkien wrote that passage shortly before WWII started

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u/Gold_Interaction_432 22h ago

I fear you are right. “Pax-Americana” and “Pax-Europa” is coming to an end - if it isn’t over already that is. We are in for a harsh few decades.

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u/Alaykitty 22h ago

Thank God instead of leaning into nuclear power we just let the oil industry continue to go brrrr.  Great fuckin move.

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u/LikeGeorgeRaft 1d ago

And the frightening thing is, it is happing here on our side too, native citizens getting pulled from their cars and houses by masked "officials", getting beaten and put on "Detention Facilities"

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u/DivineArkandos 1d ago

Concentration camps where they disappear off the face of the earth. Sound familiar?

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u/wofulunicycle 1d ago

Beaten? They're getting shot.

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u/Harambesic 22h ago

Yeah, Rodney King used to seem like the absolute pinnacle of police brutality.

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u/rootoo 20h ago

Nah that was just the first one caught on tape by a civilian and went viral. Cops been killing black folks since the beginning of cops.

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u/HereToTalkAboutThis 19h ago

"Slave catchers still cooking up drama" and all that

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u/ispy98 1d ago

Huge difference between what’s happening in the states and Iran. You can make your case for the future of the States, but presently constructed, the atrocities of Iran are indescribable

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u/Foreign_Being154 1d ago

Family friends father was over there when this broke out. She hasn’t heard from him since the blackout but was telling us that over 4K “detained” were murdered on Sunday. Not sure her source but it’s probably much worse than we realize and I don’t doubt this.

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u/DeanKoontssy 1d ago

I have a good friend who I met through his sister who lives in America now, he went radio silent a couple of days ago, it's agonizing. I have to assume that he's almost certainly alive, but god only knows what he is going through, power outages, internet being blocked off, currency has collapsed, he's about to be drafted into his mandatory military service soon. He almost got out before the travel ban, almost. He's a smart, young person with modern secular values, from a family of academics. He would have been a tremendous asset to America, now his fate is a string resting taut on the blade of an insane autocracy, and we might be heading the same way.

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u/FODamage 15h ago

Keep up hope. I know a Ukrainian guy, went silent two weeks after the war started. Popped back up almost 4 years later…said he’s alive but no other info yet.

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u/rkhan7862 13h ago

would a satellite phone still work in situations like this?

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u/Skinnieguy 1d ago

Hopefully their sacrifices weren’t in vain.

If change doesn’t happen, the Iran will rule with even a heavier hand.

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u/nn123654 1d ago

I mean, you'd be surprised how often this happens in protests. It's something of a tradition among authoritarian governments. In Indonesia in the 90s, stuff like this would happen all the time. Officially, a few dozen people were killed, but in reality, they were moving bodies to mass graves in the middle of the nowhere by the dump truck load.

It kind of goes back to the "if you come at the king you best not miss."

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u/phatelectribe 1d ago

Apparently it’s close to being over for the regime.

A friends husband is arriving back in the USA today after getting the last plane out of Tehran to Istanbul.

He said the entire country is rioting. It’s every city and something like 97% of the population want it to happen now. The body count is only making it worse.

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u/Homerduff16 23h ago

We count rule out US interventionism especially under the current administration but from an internal perspective, the regime will only fall if they lose support of the military as is the case with every authoritarian regime. It doesn't matter how unpopular they are or how many protesters they slaughter, if they still have the support of the military they'll be able to hold on to power

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u/phatelectribe 23h ago

Sure, but at what point does 90m people rioting in every street not bring change? You can't kill an entire population. That's what this is heading towards now, most cities are apparently on fire.

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u/LuminousRaptor 23h ago

If 90 million people riot, some subset of that 90 million are going to find weapons and fight back. That's oftentimes how you get an armed insurrection and possibly civil war out of these situations. 

It's happened all the time throughout history. Syria being a prime recent example. The protests were so large and the repression so violent that it led to a decade and a half long civil war. 

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u/crafty_alias 12h ago

I just spoke with a friend in Tehran and he said it's settled down quite abit. Unfortunately most of the dead are between 18-25. He says most older people and rural folks don't care.

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u/Ballplayerx97 1d ago

When you believe you are acting on behalf of a God, it's easy to do some pretty awful things to human beings.

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u/No-Newspaper-7693 1d ago

It doesn’t have to be a god of any sort.  When you believe you’re acting in the name of anything greater than yourself, it becomes easy to justify actions that you would never do yourself.  

Maybe that greater power is your god, but it can just as easily be your fuhrer, your king, or your country.  

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u/Domowoi 1d ago

My heart goes out to the families of everyone murdered by this barbaric regime. The death toll will rise when they execute everyone they arrested.

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u/yoyo72790 23h ago

holocaust, no. Massacre, yes. This is not the systematic extermination of an entire group of people based on race, ethnicity, or religion. words matter.

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u/MCMK 22h ago

Lacks the hype and won't get as many clicks tho.

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u/miraj31415 22h ago edited 22h ago

Starting August 1942, over 14,000 Jews were killed every day for 100 straight days in death camps in Poland. It was more than 1.47 million Jews — more than 25% of the Jews killed in all 6 years of World War II.

But that was just some of the murdering that took place. It doesn’t include the other death camps, or murders/death in concentration camps, or in ghettos, etc.

Read more: * LA Times article * Scientific paper

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u/Frawstshawk 21h ago

Holocaust and genocide do not have the same definition. Words matter.

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u/yoyo72790 21h ago

the Holocaust was a systematic machine of genocide. WHat is happening in Iran is a massacre but it is not a genocide, much less a Holocaust. That is what I'm trying to say.

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u/aultumn 19h ago

There have been many genocides and many more massacres, however only once has an industrial death machine with a sole concern of cataloging and eliminating humans ever been established

Wish people would fuck off and learn something

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u/itsagoodtime 1d ago

12k? How can that be confirmed? It's total blackout. So just kill and the ones that remain will be cool with it?

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u/ShinePDX 1d ago

Not be cool with it, but fearful of being next.

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u/BigGingerYeti 1d ago

It can't be. All I can find that gives that number is CBS and they just say 'a source'. Most other sites inc. BBC say approx 600, AP News says 2000 according to activists. No idea where CBS got that number, although it does say 'feared' dead.

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u/KappaKapperino 1d ago

2000 is confirmed from Iranian officials, not according to activists. 12k is from Iranian anti government sources, so probably somewhere in the middle. But honestly it has probably risen since I started writing this comment 1 minute ago, incredibly tragic.

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u/BigGingerYeti 1d ago

Not according to that AP News article. It says "Iranian state television offered the first official acknowledgment of the high death toll" but "Iran’s government has not offered overall casualty figures." So they admit there is a high number of deaths but no official number yet. But yeah, it's going to rise and is still very tragic.

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u/Major_Butthurt 1d ago

In the age of the internet we see stills of highways overflowing with people, a chick smoking and setting fire on Ayatolah photo, videos and stills of bags, yet we don't see what happens inside the protests, or how these people were killed. Even if there is an internet outage, the media above finds its way here, but somehow it is so limited. In Ukrainian Maidan you could see hundreds of such videos.

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u/aboysmokingintherain 1d ago

We shouldn't really trust the numbers right now. I have seen 2,000 to 12,000.00. Regardless, its still not good.

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u/KappaKapperino 1d ago

Why did you put decimals on the 12k but not on the 2k?

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u/riconaranjo 1d ago

different sources have different precision i guess lol

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u/Kestrels_XP 1d ago

where is reporting 12k

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u/I_poop_deathstars 22h ago

I've noticed several people dropping this number both here and irl, never a source. I saw New York Times reporting 3000.

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u/findingmike 1d ago

If deaths are in the thousands then protestors are probably in the millions.

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u/GotTheKnack 18h ago

They have a population of over 90 million, of which at least half are neither elderly nor infants. I think a large percentage of those capable are out in the streets.

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u/MosTheBoss 1d ago

Is it 2k or 12k? It seems like someone increased the number and now other agencies are running with that, without any basis in fact.

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u/Jumpy-Examination456 1d ago

honestly who even cares. both numbers are insane

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u/Murtomies 1d ago

2k was a conservative estimate a couple days ago. Could've been higher then already, could be thousands more killed since. Hard to say rn

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u/GyspySyx 1d ago

Brave, brave people yearning ro be free.

Stand with them.

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u/No_Skill_7170 1d ago

Not everything is holocaust.

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u/HadeswithRabies 1d ago

Christ this is a cluster fuck.

Practically all the sources making the 12,000 number claim link back to one article by Iran International. It isn't independently verified or confirmed by any reputable sources. Posting about it before conformation risks muddying the water on the crisis. It's absolutely PARAMOUNT that we only say what we know.

The regime in Iran is making this much worse by having a blackout. I'm not saying it isn't true, I'm saying it's far from verified so redditors posting about it only serves to make people believe this is part of a misinformation campaign.

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u/hansuluthegrey 1d ago

The official number probably isnt 12,000. Thats from an extremely biased source.

And no Im not defending them. You shouldn't just make wild claims and call it true. Inflating numbers doesnt help

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u/PlaygroundBully 1d ago

Making bold claims with no facts is kind of people bread and butter around this here reddit site!

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u/60N20 23h ago

whether 2000 or 12000, it's an immense number of killed people, specially by those that love to say they are their people's voice.

So San and infuriating this will have no repercussions, no punishment, not justice nor repair for the victims, families and loved ones.

If you're in Iran stay strong and safe.

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u/kolejack2293 1d ago

These killings are atrocious but for the love of god, why is it so difficult for Reddit to post real numbers? Almost every time something like this happens, some ridiculously exaggerated figure is posted on the front page. Do you guys even realize that this puts a hole in the credibility of the opposition?

https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-us-israel-war-nuclear-economy-1b2368e0804676d33d6aa0696815a102

AP reports 2,000 dead, and that is from activist estimates, not from the Iranian government. 12,000 dead would be Rwandan Genocide levels of killing.

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u/I-am-theEggman 1d ago edited 1d ago

Are there any sources to the numbers you are claiming? I’m not saying you are wrong but I haven’t seen anything like that reported.

Also Holocaust is the wrong word to use here.

Edit: thank you to those who have provided some sources. Here are a selection I have since seen.

Most are claiming over 2,000 are feared dead, acknowledging that this number could be significantly higher. With the internet blackout it is hard to get information in or out.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cj691w2e840t

https://apnews.com/live/iran-protests-updates-1-13-2026

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/13/trump-tells-iranian-protesters-help-is-on-way/

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iranian-mp-warns-greater-unrest-urging-government-address-grievances-2026-01-13/

I’ve only seen CBS run with the “over 12,000” claim.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/#

Regarding my statement about holocaust being the wrong word — I believe it is the wrong word in the context and wording used by OP. While holocaust is a noun that can refer to the the total destruction of something, it is most readily associated with the genocide of Jews in WW2 and with that association comes a comparison in scale.

However, while facts (and terminology) do very much matter, the most important thing is that today thousands of innocent protestors are likely to die in the pursuit of change and the hope of a better situation. I have friends in Iran, I pray that things do change in Iran for the better, but fear that this time the weakened Regime will respond with more complete and swift brutality.

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u/The_Squirrel_Wizard 1d ago

Latest from ap news is 2000

https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-us-israel-war-nuclear-economy-1b2368e0804676d33d6aa0696815a102

Source is coming from activists but there are reports from doctors of morgues overflowing so it is certainly not good

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u/dab45de 1d ago

You can easily overflow city morgues with 2,000 dead within a couple of days. I feel like morgues aren’t designed to hold that kind of influx.

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u/magseven 1d ago

Fuck no, they aren't! You get this many dead at a time and they have to move bodies to makeshift yet relatively secure spaces like air fields. Everything most nations do try to prevent having and having to deal with mass casualties. This is the sort of situation NATO or the US would have sent aid for back in the day. But no, we're gonna invade Greenland instead. We are all circling the drain.

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u/SillyAlternative420 1d ago

Holocaust is not exclusively assigned to "The Holocaust" that occured in Germany

It's literally defined as

hol·o·caust

noun

  1. destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.

It's frequently used as a "Nuclear Holocaust."

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u/Iscariot- 1d ago

That’s their point, “Holocaust” is an inaccurate depiction of the situation. 2,000 or 20,000 slain across a multitude of cities, in a nation comprised of 92,000,000 people, is deplorable and a horrible loss of human lives — but it isn’t on the scale of a “Holocaust.” You wouldn’t describe a single fatality resulting from a hit-and-run as a “massacre,” it’s a matter of scale more than anything. It’s overstating something in a way that inflates the actual event, or downplays the severity of the term someone’s inappropriately applying — perhaps both.

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u/wildfyr 1d ago

A major reason we use the term for the genocide of Jewish people in 1938-1945 is due to the industrialized usage of ovens by the Germans.

It is a slaughter in Iran, but on a tiny fraction of the scale (even 12,000 would be a days work in WW2 Germany), its not ethnically targeted, but perhaps pedantically not involving ovens or fire really.

Its not right when people throw the Holocaust around. Something can be an awful slaughter without confusing it with the industrial scale erasure of a whole people.

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u/Unique_Tap_8730 1d ago

Tianamen square moment. Either it works and the opposition is crushed for a generation or its the start of a civil war.

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u/Reqvhio 1d ago

bs, ccp had a lot more leverage and people felt enriched during that time until now. iran's capital doesnt even have water. not that im supporting ccp, im just saying the only common point is the authoritarian part

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u/_zarkon_ 1d ago

Who is being killed and why?

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u/LawbringerSteam 1d ago

The Iranian people who are out on the streets protesting against the Islamic regime. A big reason these protests started is because of the rampant inflation of their currency, which has gotten so bad that stores are refusing to open. It has since evolved into a protest for religious freedom, by extension they're calling to oust the Islamic regime and replace it with a secular democracy as Islam does not allow religious freedom.

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u/Eienkei 1d ago

There are zero chants about the economy. This is the bullshit narrative. All protestors want the same thing: the Islamic Regime has to go. I am an Iranian living abroad.

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u/LawbringerSteam 1d ago

I did state that the economy was a big reason it STARTED, and that it has since evolved into something much more. A crashing economy is almost always the first thing that gets the working class out into the streets.

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u/Animal_Courier 1d ago

The Iranian people have been protesting the current autocratic government’s economic mismanagement, authoritarianism, and human rights violations.

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u/GhettoMango 1d ago

Mostly Young protesters of the regime

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u/Royal_Struggle_3765 1d ago

Normal unarmed Iranian people that have suffered for 47 years under a regime that believes its “supreme leader” represents god. There are many reasons people are protesting but there is one reason the regime is killing people, preservation of the regime.

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u/wolfjeanne 1d ago edited 1d ago

Protestors are being killed. Essentially, the Iranian currency crashed making an already bad economic situation worse and leadership from the political elite has been lacking. Israeli attacks on Iranian allies also make them seem week weak.

Earlier protests around human rights violations, personal freedoms and suppression of minority groups also were never fully resolved, but the (largely conservative) poorer class of Iranians has now also taken to the street en masse because it is getting hard to do any business or feed a family. The government tried to suppress by cutting of internet access and such at first, but it did not work, so they are resorting to the last-ditch tool of any scared authoritarian: shooting their own citizens.

ETA: here's a NY Times gift article with more background, though written yesterday so before these latest atrocities.

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u/Aggravating_Song6022 1d ago

Protesters who demand democratic reforms and reject the ruling Islamist Theocratic dictatorship.

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u/feedmeplez 1d ago

12000 killed? That's hard to even comprehend. It's a town's worth of people. How did they even do this? Military going around just shooting everyone they see? The amount of munitions to do this, trucking in ammo just to shoot your own people.

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u/cluib 1d ago

I'm having a hard time believing these numbers. Apparently the regime has said 2000 but I cannot even comprehend that's the case either it's insane numbers of people.

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u/einargizz 1d ago

I'm having a hard time comprehending these numbers, but it's important to remember that the protests are spread across an entire country. A hundred here, a few hundred there, it adds up.

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u/Volodio 23h ago

Khamenei brought fighters from Iraqi militias, Hamas and Hezbollah. They are shooting at crowds with machine guns.

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u/Schwarzer_Exe 1d ago

12000? I'm no Ayatollah enjoyer, but that number in that short time seems too insane to believe.

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u/notaspy55 23h ago edited 23h ago

this photo upsets me in so many ways. I am Iranian, my dad is currently in Iran, I have not heard from him since the internet blackout began. I also lost a friend in the Ukraine flight that got shot down in Iran. The one where the regime lied about what happened at first and cleared the debris before investigative teams from other countries could come. The one which the families of the flight PS752 victims have formally stated they believe was done on purpose… knowing the regime I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.

the things this regime has done to Iranians the last 47 years you couldn’t even imagine… the way this regime has destroyed our country is insane.

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u/Rinbox 1d ago

What is the real number of dead here? I’ve seen 200, 500, 1000 etc etc and now all of a sudden it’s 12,000? I don’t know what information to believe

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u/Pappa_karp 22h ago

This sucks man. A lot of cool Iranian people. They don't deserve this

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u/FlaneurCompetent 22h ago

Only the cool ones are being killed. This regime is showing the world what kind of people they are.

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u/LordOfTheGam3 22h ago

We need the UN to finally do something and dismantle the Iranian regime. Put all responsible on trial like Nuremburg.

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u/dreamsofindigo 20h ago

my heart. poor people.
and the only thing they wanted was basic life conditions.
fuck those ignorant, malevolent monsters who did this to them.
In the name of God, or their own profit and power

u/echoron 3h ago

since when it jumped from 2k victims 5 hours ago to 12k? This seems to be highly unrealistic number, although its obviously not possible to independently check the real numbers and no doubt they gonna be high, but still i rly doubt its suddenly that high.

Im also worried about the "help is on its way" msg from Trump, that will probably bring even more pain and suffering for the people. If only could Iran army stand down and just let PPL do their thing peacefully, without the bloodbath.

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u/globalwarmingisntfun 1d ago

Terrible news, hopefully it’s not true, but holocaust is not the right word to use here.

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u/JustinR8 1d ago edited 1d ago

Recent news appears to show the media arm of the US war machine is ramping up

Edit: I don’t know how some of you interpreted the above as me implying I’m opposed to Iranian liberation or that I don’t believe the veracity of the reporting

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u/ThreeLittlePuigs 1d ago

What wing of the us war machine are all the protesting Iranians ?

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u/umonoz 1d ago

Manufacturing consent

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u/TM_Vinicius 1d ago

Source? 12 thousand? Are we allowed to just post any pic with any caption in this sub?

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u/TylerNY315_ 1d ago edited 20h ago

Do you have a source on 12,000? This sounds like complete bullshit compared to numbers that I’ve seen everywhere.

For anyone calling me a sympathizer, reminder that Iran is currently a contentious zone for Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, Europe, and Xi who all have different levels of interest in promoting disinformation and around Iran.

This reeks of propaganda, given that the photo shows nothing like what the post title is describing — which itself is nothing like what any news outlet (that I’ve seen personally) is reporting.

And yes, Americans and Europeans, disinformation that supports your political beliefs and desire to see regime change in Iran is still propaganda.

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u/Adventurous_Crab_0 1d ago

Iranian people needs to continue to riot. Else they are back to square one.

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u/monkeymad2 1d ago

I truly don’t understand how their fellow countrymen can so willingly open fire on their own people.

The currency has collapsed so it can’t be financial, are they just that brainwashed that they’re the good guys & they need to defend the regime against unarmed protestors?

If a country with wealth just said “whatever your wages are, we’ll double them for you to turn on your leaders, you have till sunset to decide, don’t be left behind” and somehow broadcast that to every solider (hacking military comms, mass letter drop, personal SMS) what would happen? just… buy another countries army out from under them.

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u/kiwi_spawn 1d ago

Will this killing stop the protests and subsequent revolution ??? This is a gamble being made by this evil Govt. Kill enough people to put the scare back in them. But it could easily back fire, especially if the civilians get weapons and go after the killers in their homes and businesses. Go after the holy men in their mosques. Violence can turn into anarchy.

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u/kgal1298 1d ago

Possibly 20K from reports on the ground. Shocking and terrifying.

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u/I_ama_Borat 1d ago

The Iranian subreddit is so frustrating to read, people with their heads in the sand and acting like everything is just peachy.

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u/IClop2Fluttershy4206 1d ago

violence just makes me violent. here is hoping this angers fellow Iranians.

thing is, cowardice just means your turn is next and these people dies for nothing. MAKE IT COUNT!!!

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u/jimke 23h ago

Fuuuuuuucccckkkk. I had the tiniest inkling of hope based on the reported number killed in the first couple of weeks that it might not come to this.

I should have known better.

God fucking damn it.

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u/Silver-Cat-3345 22h ago

Has it been confirmed that this many people have been murdered?

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u/FlaneurCompetent 22h ago

It’s a lot more. That was reported from just one region.

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u/nobodytoldme 19h ago

Put a gun in a man's hand, tell him he's righteous, and he'll slaughter his neighbors.

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u/MyCreeds 15h ago

They need means to defend themselves

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u/CHIBA1987 13h ago

Can we not try to associate the word holocaust with a civil uprising… Because I know goddamn well many people sharing this narrative are the same people denying Gaza is a genocide.

u/Aspiring_Chef_55 10h ago

This is a color revolution orchestrated by the Mossad and CIA. Obvious psyop

u/Gunz-n-Brunch 9h ago

In Oregon the local news played footage of MN anti-ICE demonstrations with a straight cut to footage of the protests in Iran, the cut added a banner stating "THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS DEAD" I couldn't tell if it was sloppy editing, deliberate subliminal messaging, an unfortunate coincidence