Real Genocide: Iran Report Says 16,500 Dead and 330,000 Injured, Most in Last Two Days
The Sunday Times has obtained a new report from doctors on the ground in Iran, which says at least 16,500 protesters have died and 330,000 injured, most of them in two days of utter slaughter in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime in its 47-year existence. Christina Lamb has more.
You have ten minutes to cry,” came the officer’s curt command to the couple as he revealed the corpse of their twentysomething daughter, gunned down in the historic streets of Isfahan.
After searching morgues and hospitals for days when she didn’t come home from the demonstrations, they paid 700 million tomans (£3,700) in so-called “bullet money” demanded by the security forces and were driven five hours to another town where her body had been thrown into an old grave.
Yet in one respect they were fortunate. A complete communications and internet shutdown for the past ten days has left tens of thousands of Iranians with no idea if their loved ones are alive or dead as the regime has tried to stifle protests with what one doctor has called “genocide under cover of digital darkness”.
Yesterday, for the first time, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khameini, admitted that “several thousands” have been killed since the protests began three weeks ago.
In a broadcast to the nation on state TV, he blamed protesters themselves, describing them as “foot-soldiers of the United States” and claiming that “rioters were armed with live ammunition that was imported from abroad”.
But the Sunday Times has obtained a new report from doctors on the ground, which says at least 16,500 protesters have died and 330,000 have been injured, most of them in two days of utter slaughter in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime in its 47-year existence.
Most of the victims are thought to have been younger than 30. Heartbreaking Instagram posts record deaths of a female fashion designer of 23, three young footballers — including one who was just 17 years old and captained a youth team in Tehran — a champion basketball player of 21, a fledgling movie director and a student hoping to study for a doctorate at Bristol University, whose first protest was his last.
“This is a whole new level of brutality,” said Professor Amir Parasta, an Iranian-German eye surgeon and medical director of Munich MED, which treated many of those injured during the Women, Life, Freedom protests in 2022 and helped create a network of doctors across Iran that produced the report. “[In 2022] they were using rubber bullets and pellet guns taking out eyes. This time they are using military-grade weapons and what we are seeing are gunshot and shrapnel wounds in the head, neck and chest.
“I’ve spoken to dozens of doctors on the ground and they are really shocked and crying,” he added. “These are surgeons who have seen war.”
The doctors spoke using Starlink — satellite technology produced by Elon Musk’s SpaceX that enables people to access the internet via terminals, bypassing traditional internet infrastructure. Starlink terminals have been smuggled into the country and have been the only way to communicate since 8pm on January 8 when the internet was turned off. Activists have taken about 50,000-60,000 terminals into Iran, but using them brings great personal risk as they are banned by the regime and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces have been out searching for dishes.
The doctors’ testimony, as well as graphic video, was provided to The Sunday Times by Parasta as it is too risky for people on the ground to speak to outsiders.
The Sunday Times was also able to reach a number of people who had fled Iran. One person said: “Tell the whole world that on Friday they sprayed everyone with gunfire. The IRGC forces were calmly trying to aim for people’s heads.”
Another person said: “Snipers on rooftops were shooting people in the back of the head. We were walking when suddenly several people next to us would collapse to the ground, covered in blood. When we tried to go toward them to carry the bodies away, they opened fire on us.”
The accounts reflect the scenes in graphic videos that have emerged from Iran in recent days, as well as voicenotes, and descriptions by some witnesses crossing the border into Turkey. They tell of IRGC forces and its Basij militia on motorbikes using live ammunition from Kalashnikovs and even machineguns mounted on pick-up trucks to mow people down. There were reports, too, of Hashd al Shaabi, Shia militias from Iraq, being bussed in.
Worth reading in full.
Needless to say, no Left-wing protestors will be taking to London’s streets to object to this slaughter. And those Persian exiles who do can expect brutal treatment from the police.
Stop Press: In the Mail, read about the hellish torture chambers awaiting Iran’s protestors if they’re unlucky enough to be arrested and taken into custody.
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500+ security officers killed as armed protesters backed by the CIA and Mossad defied government crackdown.
“As the dust clears, millions of Iranian citizens are pouring into the streets of cities from Tehran to Mashhad to express their indignation at the riots, to denounce the foreign elements that helped spur the regime change rampage, and to proclaim their support for the government.
But in newsrooms across the West, giving voice to these masses of Iranian demonstrators seems forbidden.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/14/western-media-whitewashes-deadly-riots-in-iran/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=25e421af-5da6-495b-a910-91a1d9cb6666
In other news Iranian useful idiot returns.
Interesting take on things.
But hey this is nothing if not a free speech site.
Many geopolitical analysts agree with the contents of my post contrary to what the main stream media and Western governments are telling you.
You are correct of course. Sadly even “The Sceptic” is trumpeting the Israeli lies on this subject.
One needs only look at footage from Iran before the CIA/Mossad fermented riots to see streets full of perfectly content people and hundreds of western dressed women with no head covering. The two year old video of the Canadian woman supposedly swearing revenge should be enough to destroy this nonsense media propaganda.
“…this is nothing if not a free speech site.” It’s nothing of the sort. This place functions as an echo chamber, where groupthink and conformity reign supreme, and anybody expressing viewpoints which go against the curated DS narratives or who deviates from the general consensus herein is met with intolerance or derision, certainly not reciprocation for their right to express themselves freely. Somebody laughably referred to this site as a “debating forum” once, and nothing could be further from the truth. All you get are lots of people reinforcing each other’s views constantly, like a hive mind that holds no truck with dissenters. Why do you suppose there’s such a heavy reliance on the 👎👍👎as opposed to people responding using actual words in a reasoned and articulate manner? It seems strange for alleged free speech proponents to resort to this lazy psychological tool continually, in lieu of composing a comment, no? Is that not the reason most pay their subs, to post stuff and participate?🤔 This is a *permitted speech* site, because the “free” part is tolerated only one way, both by DS mods and the majority of users. If this site was truly for “free speech”, I wouldn’t be… Read more »
Well mogs much of what you post is very sound, some of it is less so, and the same goes for many other commenters, except me if course, I only ever say sensible things.
Don’t forget that lord Toby Young founder of this site also founded the FSU because he is a true believer.
Most people here are more or less aligned because we are sentient creatures unlike guardian readers. On some issues there is strong divergence and fair enough. But everybody gets their say.
The fact Toby set up the FSU, and is a staunch defender and advocate of freedom of speech, is the biggest irony when it comes to seeing how this site operates and the extent of the manipulation that goes on by DS in order to ensure certain narratives are pushed and 99.9% of people are always singing from the same hymn sheet. They cannot accomplish that without making sure dissenters are suppressed or discouraged from commenting, and I speak from personal experience. Anybody serious about freedom of speech should join Twitter. It’s obviously a very different animal to DS, very liberating, but it’s also like night and day with regards to what is permitted. You can tell Musk is a free speech absolutist because it used to be the polar opposite of what it is now and highly censored, pushing mainstream narratives and banning anyone who disagreed. Anyone who is a regular user of Twitter would be highly unlikely to come to this site and say it’s anything like a “free speech site”. And the beauty of Twitter is that people can be as abusive, sweary or trolltastic as they like but we can just block such posters, unlike on… Read more »
I disagree with you, and I disagree with you on all your anti-Israel posts, as you’re aware. However, I’m glad you and others keep posting and expressing your counterviewpoints, regardless of how they might be recieved. This place could do with a lot more people unafraid to share their opinions which fly in the face of this site’s narratives and the majority on here who toe the line. Maybe then it might actually resemble something close to a ‘debating forum’, which it is currently a far cry from. I get the distinct impression there’s people sat lurking, wanting to participate and share their views on various topics, but they’ve seen how other people’s comments are received who speak freely and hold opposing views to the majority, and they’re probably reluctant to post because they can’t be arsed with the hassle. I’m wondering if there’d be more interaction and more people willing to comment on here if DS did away with the 👎👎👍, not that I can see that ever happening. It’s largely how this place polices itself. The mods just kick back in the shadows munching their 🍿, watching the drama unfold, deleting the comments of posters they’ve taken a… Read more »
For the last 20+ years I have used trusted alternative media to counter the lies, propaganda and omissions of the truth from the legacy main stream media. Lockdown Sceptics was one of those sites. When it became The Daily Sceptic most of the articles, particularly recently, are just extracts from msm articles as is this one. With the Times, Sunday Times, The Telegraph etc. all being paywalled at least the DS gives us the opportunity to read the main tenets of these paywalled articles so we can comment on them. I tend to comment on them more on their facebook pages than I do on the DS. Mainly because fewer and fewer people comment on DS and most are just parroting the DS agenda or resort to abuse instead of debate. We used to have lively debates on DS in the past but we now mostly have abuse as the anti-Muslim pro-Zionists have taken over the comments. I’ll continue to comment when I disagree with an article or when I have something to add to an article I agree with. However, the standard of commentators has unfortunately deteriorated. I am not aware of moderators deleting any posts and I have… Read more »
I can’t recall ever having any comment deleted or being warned so immense credit to DS for that mercy.
Compare and contrast with The Guardin where to depart from their favoured ideolgies – Covid/mmRNA/vaccines/lockdowns/masks/climate change/Putin bad Zelensky good etc. one is simply banned.
I am eternally grateful to the DS for being such a comfort in the early days of Covid Clown World as at first I thought I may be the only one resisting the MSM onslought.
We are though become an echo chamber, the only topic gendering controversy – and worse – being Israel/Palestine/Iran/possibly Trump. It would be refreshingly good to have articles from the likes of Jeffrey Sachs for his take on the above – some on here might learn something – rather than the repetitive and tiresome pro Israel narratives.
Yes, I often read articles by Jeffrey Sachs on other websites that allow articles with a range of opinions.
Sadly DS only have articles that they agree with.
I suppose it’s their site that our money helps fund but it would be nice to see opposing views now and again.
Yes, you and I will always have a difference of opinion on certain topics, but I certainly concur on the other points you make. If we are on a (allegedly ) ‘free speech site’ and there is a prevailing opinion held by the majority then shouldn’t there also be a counter-opinion allowed? Therein lies the litmus test of whether posters are true proponents of free speech or not. Because, as you allude to, some people demonstrate an intolerance to those who challenge them, hold opposing views or present a counter-argument, complete with evidence, and behave as if triggered, such is their inability to respect other people’s right to freedom of speech. I don’t even know if they’re aware they’re behaving in such a way half the time, and perhaps they don’t see that they’re coming across as hypocrites. But this is the lack of reciprocation I’ve spoken about numerous times. Personally, I just scroll past most comments. It’s not hard. Anyway, keep on truckin’ and breaching the confines of the DS Echo Chamber.😁 It’s good to test the boundaries and see how many on here are authentic and practice what they preach from time to time. MODERATOR HERE. The discussion… Read more »
Thank you Mr Moderator, and I’m going to stick my neck out and presume you use ‘he/him’ pronouns.🧔
And if you could not delete my comments multiple times when they’re abuse-free and consist only of sources used for fact-checking somebody’s rabid codswallop, that would also be much appreciated.👍
I know I’m the human version of Marmite, but c’mon.😳
Ah, c’mon Tobes. You know it’s fine when it’s moslems doing the killing!
Not a peep from the BBC or the Palestiniacs.
If the IRGC prevails then we are a big step closer to WWIII.
16.500 dead Muslim protestors you say? CIA et al busy again. Which ‘color’ is this ‘revolution’? The Ukes took orange – all paid for by the CIA and the EUrinal.
How many dead Christians every year at the hands of the Muslim JIhad? Zero coverage of that slaughter and rapine.
This will be another pretext to allow a few million more Muzzies into this country including military age men for the civil war and Jihad that is almost inevitable.
Ali Faragi would not oppose such a mass migration controlled as he is by the Muzzies.
Listened to a speech by a female Iranian mathematics student following the Islamic takeover, all the women in her class where taken to a camp, many raped, most then shot. She got out by agreeing to marry one of her torturers, then fled to the US.
The country is run by Islamic savages who haven’t changed behaviour in 1400 years, the world will watch as any dissent is crushed whilst simultaneously judging the actions of the one country in the middle East that is surrounded, by and constantly attacked by Islam.
Has it ever occurred to you that she may be lying? “This post is for everyone trying to use the mantra of saving Muslim women, the tired bullshit the West has used to actually destroy the lives of Muslim women for decades. Here are some statistics specific to Iran. LITERACY AMONG WOMEN. Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the literacy rate for women under the western-backed Shah was 42%. In less than a decade of the revolution, that number climbed to 98% STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) GRADUATES. In Iran, ~70% of STEM graduates are women—far exceeding U.S. levels, which stand at 53%) PROFESSIONAL DOCTORATE. About 58% of students in Iranian professional doctorate programs are women. In contrast, that number in the U.S. is 56%. FEMICIDE (homicide of females). In Iran, the rate of intentional murder of women is 0.59 per 100,000. In the US, that number nearly 4 times higher, at 2.1 per 100,000 women (with stark racial disparities: Black & Native American women: 4.3–4.8 per 100k vs White women: ~1.5 per 100k PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT. In Iran, women hold 27% of ministerial-level posts, ~1,121 female judges, and ~25% of managerial roles in government (these values… Read more »
Interesting, however many of your statistics are taken from Facebook posts with no verification.
Unesco estimates females to make up 25% of University graduates, and literacy rates of 85% for all women as of 2022. Not terrible figures by any measure.
As to the Iranian woman lying, to what end? I was at university with a pair of self proclaimed Persian students 20 years ago, they despised the Iranian regime and described it in vivid detail from the experiences of their relatives and themselves. Their accounts did not lead me to believe that this woman’s story would be a likely fiction.
All those Persians who lost their wealth and power after the revolution of 1979 have an axe to grind.
They will do and say anything to change Iran back to the corrupt state it was so they can return and use their wealth, power and influence to further their own ends.
There was an Iranian Freedom protest in London yesterday which gathered outside the BBC and marched to Downing Street. Magyar Tousi has been reporting on the situation in Iran since the uprising began. https://www.youtube.com/live/xuQolI1BzsM?si=An_VYJ73z2_2RJ8v