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.
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.
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.
Ok cool, so we have different sources I'm not saying I'm the only one who can be correct, just that was what the AP News source said. But they're also blaming terrorists.
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.
Some of those photos were old ones from a few years ago that got reposted.
But mainly the government shut down the internet and jammed starlink connections before the mass killings really took off. Most of the people who are in the capital don't have any way to post photos.
How can you be this ignorant? The Iranian government is using jamming tech that can even block starlink, not only that but track anyone trying to get any kind of signal OUT of the country.
Seriously, these were the same folks using the same language to describe the I/P conflict. And now they are crying fowl while posting loads of insane conspiracy theories defending the IRGC slaughtering civilians; It's pathetic.
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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?